The archaeology of african-european interaction: Investigating the social roles of trade, traders, and the use of space in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hueda kingdom, republic of bénin

World Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 351-369

  Kelly, Kenneth G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bight of b nin; Intercultural interaction, culture change; Slave coast

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007842368     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1997.9980353     Document Type: Article

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