Towards an understanding of the carnelian bead trade from Western India to sub-Saharan Africa: the application of UV-LA-ICP-MS to carnelian from Gujarat, India, and West Africa

Insoll, Timothy; Polya, David A.; Bhan, Kuldeep K.; Irving, Duncan; Jarvis, Kym E.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.02.007

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“…The confirmed appearance of African sorghum, pearl millet, cow pea, and hyacinth bean in South Asia by 3,300-4,000 BP indicates that exchange along the shores of the Indian Ocean, probably facilitated by residents of the Arabian Peninsula, was strong long before the Islamic era (Boivin and Fuller 2009). Typological description and sourcing of trade beads found in Africa is still under development (e.g., Insoll et al 2004;Popelka et al 2005;Wood 2011). However, beads, metal artifacts, ceramics traceable to sources, along with "sourced" and dated animal and plant haplogroups, can indicate the number of phases of contact between areas, whether certain items came as a "package," or whether plants, animals, and artifactual products were "repackaged" by middlemen along subcontinental and transcontinental trading routes.…”

Section: Questions For Collaborative Research: Reframing and Refocusingmentioning

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Animal Genetics and African Archaeology: Why It Matters

Gifford–Gonzalez

2013

Afr Archaeol Rev

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This article introduces the special issue of African Archaeological Review on the relevance of African livestock genetics to archaeology on the continent. It shows how modern and ancient animal genetic research in Eurasia has substantially revised archaeological scenarios for the origins and spread of food production there. It argues that, in contrast to colleagues in Europe and Asia, Africanist archaeologists have generally been slow to engage in truly collaborative research with archaeogeneticists, with some notable exceptions. It builds a case that animal introductions and domestication are as much social, cultural, and economic processes as they are ecological in nature. Through examples, it outlines some profound selective effects that animal keeping has had on humans themselves. Building on the concepts of taste and embodied practice in Stahl's (2002) discussion of artifacts and differently scaled encounters with non-local commerce, it develops suggestions for archaeologically studying genetically distinctive domestic animals as part of local and long-distance economic systems. Finally, it comments on the issue's review articles and offers suggestions for ways to encourage stronger collaboration between archaeologists and genetic researchers.Résumé Cet article montrent les façons dont les recherches génétiques animales modernes et anciennes en Eurasie ont révisé substantiellement les scénarios archéologiques des origins et de la propagation sur le continent. Il affirme que, par contraste avec ces colleagues en Europe et en Asie, les archéologues africanists ont généralement été lents à s'engager dans la recherche collaborative avec les archéogénéticiens, avec quelques exceptions notables. Il fait le cas que les introductions et les domestications sont autant des processus sociaux, culturels, et économiques qu'ils sont écologiques par nature. À travers des exemples, il résume quelques effets profonds selectifs que le gardiennage d'animaux a eu sur les être humains eux-mêmes. En prennant appui sur les concepts du goût et de la pratique Afr Archaeol Rev (2013) 30:1-20 DOI 10.1007 D. Gifford-Gonzalez (*) Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA e-mail: dianegg@ucsc.edu incarnés dans la discussion de Stahl (2002) des objets et des rencontres des échelles différentes avec le commerce non local, il avance des propositions pour l'étude des animaux domestiques génétiquement distincts comme un partie des systèmes economiques de longue-distance. Enfin, il commente les articles du numéro et offre les suggéstions d'encourager la collaboration plus étroite entre les archéologues et les chercheurs génétiques.

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Section: Questions For Collaborative Research: Reframing and Refocusingmentioning

confidence: 97%

Animal Genetics and African Archaeology: Why It Matters

Gifford–Gonzalez

2013

Afr Archaeol Rev

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“…Valuable trace element concentrations were provided in a total of 20 archaeometric papers (Aspinall and Feather 1972;De Bruin et al, 1972;Luedtke 1978;Craddock et al, 1983;Hess 1996;Cackler et al, 1999;Nathan et al, 1999;Lyons et al, 2003;Glascock 2004;Insoll et al, 2004;Evans and Donahue 2005;Evans et al, 2007;Kasztovszky et al, 2008;Navazo et al, 2008;Huckell et al, 2011;Olofsson and Rodushkin 2011;Law et al, 2012;Pettitt et al, 2012;Pitblado et al, 2013;ten Bruggencate et al, 2013). After exclusion of those papers omitting data or including data that are incompatible because of instrumental protocols, it was possible to define a set of 12 papers reporting more than 1041 silica samples, including agate (80), chalcedony (11), chert (319), flint (189), opal (25) and quartzite (402).…”

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“…1, c.200 km to the north-east of Jarma) may be potential source areas. Arab sources refer to at least one other source of carnelian, known by the desert name of Tas-an-samt, about a third of the way between Tadmakka and Ghadamis in the Adrar des Iforas (Levtzion and Hopkins, 2000;Insoll et al, 2004). There is also evidence of neolithic exploitation of carnelian for bead production in the Sahara and West Africa, though the exact source of the material is unknown (Calegari, 1993).…”

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In the footsteps of Pliny: tracing the sources of Garamantian carnelian from Fazzan, south-west Libya

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Insoll et al [112] tried to establish a chemical fingerprint for carnelian beads aimed at understanding the trade of this material between a production and manufacturing region in India and sub-Saharan Africa. Carnelian beads are red to reddish brown microcrystalline quartz and have been produced in Western India since 2500-2000 B.C.…”

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