The Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period
Subtitle: definite places, translocal exchange
By: edited by Eivind Heldaas Seland.
Contributors: Seland, Eivind Heldaas.
Series: BAR international series -- 1593
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781407300092
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Indian Ocean Region; Indian Ocean Region -- Antiquities; Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Definite places, translocal exchange : an introduction / Anders Bjørkelo, Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Selind; title: What happened in the Near East ca 2000 BC? / David Alan Warburton; title: Sumhuram : a Hadrami port on the Indian Ocean / Alessandra Avanzini; title: Strabo and the eastern desert of Egypt and Sudan / Richard Holton Pierce; title: Water harvesting in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / Jonatan Krzywinski; title: Roman coins as a source for Roman trading activites in the Indian Ocean / Jørgen Christian Meyer; title: Ports, Ptolemy, Periplus, and poetry : Romans in Tamil, South India and on the Bay of Bengal / Eivind Heldaas Selind; title: Early Indian Ocean trade with Zanzibar : archaeological evidence / Else Johansen Kleppe.