Converting to rice: Urbanization, Islamization and crops on Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 700-1500

World Archaeology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-154

  Walshaw, Sarah C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Eastern Africa; Pearl millet; Rice; Swahili

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; COTTON; FISHING; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INNOVATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; ISLAMISM; RICE; URBANIZATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PEMBA ISLAND; SWAHILI COAST; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 77951171274     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240903430399     Document Type: Article

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