Ivory production and consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD

Antiquity

Volumn 78, Issue 299, 2004, Pages 86-101

  Stahl, Ann B ^a   Stahl, Peter W ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ivory; Saharan trade; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; IVORY; MANUFACTURING; REGIONAL TRADE;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 1942537871     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00092954     Document Type: Article

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