Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth-Fifteenth Century Songo Mnara, Tanzania

Journal of Maritime Archaeology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-62

  Pollard, Edward ^a   Fleisher, Jeffrey ^b   Wynne Jones, Stephanie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Causeways; Coral; Swahili; Territoriality; Urban space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866739379     PISSN: 15572285     EISSN: 15572293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11457-012-9094-9     Document Type: Article

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