Swahili urbanisation, trade and food production
Subtitle: botanical perspectives from Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600-1500
By: Sarah Walshaw
Series: Cambridge monographs in African archaeology -- 90; BAR international series -- 2755; Cambridge monographs in African archaeology -- 90.; BAR international series -- 2755.
Publisher: Archaeopress, publishers of British Archaeological Reports
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781407314167
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Urbanization; Plants and civilization; Swahili-speaking peoples; Plant remains (Archaeology); Food crops; Agriculture; History
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Washington University, St. Louis, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-126).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Urbanization and the rise of specialized food production --; title: Pemba in the Swahili world : natural and cultural contexts of Swahili life --; title: Field and laboratory methods --; title: Archaeobotanical results from A.D. 600-1000 on Pemba Island: Tumbe and Kimimba --; title: Archaeobotanical results from second millennium A.D. Pemba: Chwaka, Kaliwa, and Mazrui Tumbe --; title: Testing the urban food production model: archaeobotanical patterns on Pemba Island --; title: Swahili food production in local and regional perspective --; title: Conclusions.