Interconnections
Subtitle: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 7th to 16th centuries AD
By: Marilee Wood
Series: Studies in global archaeology -- 17
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9789150622614
Subjects: Glass beads; History; Commerce
Other titles: Glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 7th to 16th centuries AD
Notes: "This thesis takes a bead's eye view of eastern Africa and Indian Ocean trade, focusing particularly on the trade and trade networks that connected southern Africa to the rest of the world. It also examines how that trade affected communities across the region. The study is largely empirical, based on a detailed body of research that has resulted in the development of a glass bead series for southern Africa that covers the time period between the 7th and the 16th centuries AD. It includes both the morphological characteristics that define each series and the chemical compositions of the glasses from which the beads were made"--Page 13.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uppsala University, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-62).

Gift; Uppsala Auktions; 2012; 1000122693.
Table of contents: title: Background to southern African archaeological sites --; title: A brief history of studies of beads in southern Africa --; title: A bead history of trade in eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean --; title: Some aspects of theory and archaeological interpretation in eastern Africa --; title: Conclusions --; title: Future work -- -- Paper I.; title: A glass bead sequence for southern Africa from the 8th to the 16th century AD  -- Marilee Wood -- (Journal of African archaeology 9 (1), 2011, pp. 67-84) -- Paper II.; title: Southern African glass beads: chemistry, glass sources and patterns of trade  -- Peter Robertshaw [and others] -- (Journal of archaeological science 37, 2010, pp. 1898-1912) -- Paper III.; title: Glass finds from Chibuene: a 6th to 17th century AD port in southern Mozambique  -- Marilee Wood, Laure Dussubieux, Peter Robertshaw -- (in review: South African archaeological bulletin) -- Paper IV.; title: The glass beads from Hlamba Mlonga, Zimbabwe: classification, context and interpretation  -- Marilee Wood -- (Journal of African archaeology, v. 7 (2), 2009, pp. 219-238) -- Paper V.; title: A cache of ~5000 glass beads from the Sibudu Cave Iron Age occupation  -- Marilee Wood, Laure Dussubieux and Lyn Wadley -- (Southern African humanities, v. 21, Dec. 2009, pp. 239-261) -- Paper VI.; title: The glass beads of Kaole Ruins  -- M. Wood -- (based on an earlier publication, Wood 2002) -- Paper VII.; title: Chemical analysis of glass beads from Madagascar -- Peter Robertshaw [and others]-- (Journal of African archaeology, v. 4 (1), 2006, pp. 91-109).