155. Some Recent Archaeological Work on the Tanganyika Coast

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.

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“…Tantalizingly, a collection of five Parthian and Sassanian coins, the latest being a coin of Ardashir I, once held in the Beit al-Amani museum on Zanzibar, may have come from a site on the island, although the archaeological context is unrecorded and the coins may be strays. 14 The same goes for the small packet of late Roman imperial coins, which seem to have come from the island of Pemba. About the Pyralaoi Islands (Lamu archipelago), the Periplus records nothing but its location.…”

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Plautianus' Zebras: A Roman Expedition to East Africa in the Early Third Century

Mallan¹

2019

The Class. Q.

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The kleptocratic supremacy of the praetorian prefect C. Fulvius Plautianus (PIR2 F 554) was felt throughout the city of Rome, the Empire and (according to one author) even beyond the imperial frontiers. Indeed, for the senatorial historian Dio Cassius, there was no more picturesque demonstration of Plautianus' acquisitiveness than his seizure of strange striped horse-like creatures from ‘islands in the Erythraean Sea’. The passage, as preserved in the text of Xiphilinus' Epitome, reads as follows (Dio Cass. 76[75].14.3): καὶ τέλος ἵππους Ἡλίῳ <ἱεροὺς> τιγροειδεῖς ἐκ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ νήσων, πέμψας ἑκατοντάρχους, ἐξέκλεψεν·In the end he even stole tiger-like horses <sacred> to Helios from the islands in the Erythraean Sea, having sent some centurions to carry out the task.

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Plautianus' Zebras: A Roman Expedition to East Africa in the Early Third Century

Mallan¹

2019

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“…There are several incongruities between Fleisher et al's theoretical formulations and wellknown empirical evidence from the region of interest. Does the emergence of urbanism and attendant social-class distinctions visible at hundreds of the sites on the Swahili coast (Freeman-Grenville 1958;Wilson [1978Wilson [ ] 2015Wilson [ , 1980 correspond to what they have called a separation of the coast from inland Africa? Is it valid or worthwhile to create distinctions between the coast and inland Africa?…”

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When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the East African Coast

Kusimba

Walz

2018

American Anthropologist

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In this article, we respond to an article by Jeffrey Fleisher et al. (2015) in which they pose the question: When did the Swahili become maritime? We draw from our research findings in coastal and inland Eastern Africa to show that inland African societies were an essential component in the development of Swahili urbanism and maritimity. To understand change in any part of the East African coast requires understanding the entire context of economic, political, and social interaction across the diverse dimensions of this society. By excluding inland Eastern Africa from their analysis, Fleisher et al. omit the interactions between land and sea that were the basis of this society's development. We conclude that Swahili society resulted from intercommunity interaction, socioeconomic networks, and exploitation of diverse regional resources. [trade, maritime, mosaics, urbanism, Swahili] RESUMEN En este artículo, respondemos al escrito de Jeffrey Fleischer et al. (2015) en el cual hacen la pregunta: ¿Cuándo los swahilis se convirtieron en una sociedad marítima? Nos basamos en los hallazgos de nuestra investigación en África oriental costera e interior para mostrar que las sociedades africanas del interior fueron un componente esencial en el desarrollo del urbanismo y la maritimidad swahili. Entender los cambios en cualquier parte de la costa africana oriental requiere entender el contexto entero de las interacciones económicas, políticas y sociales a través de las diversas dimensiones de esta sociedad. Al excluir África oriental interior de su análisis, Fleisher et al. omiten las interacciones entre el mar y la tierra que fueron la base del desarrollo de esta sociedad. Concluimos que la sociedad swahili resultó de la interacción intercomunitaria, las redes

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Beyond the Coastalscapes: Preindustrial Social and Political Networks in East Africa

Kusimba

Dussubieux

2013

Afr Archaeol Rev

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155. Some Recent Archaeological Work on the Tanganyika Coast

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Plautianus' Zebras: A Roman Expedition to East Africa in the Early Third Century

Plautianus' Zebras: A Roman Expedition to East Africa in the Early Third Century

When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the East African Coast

Beyond the Coastalscapes: Preindustrial Social and Political Networks in East Africa

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