The Urban History of a Rural Place: Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD

[...] those that do exist suggest a different history in which Pemba was a core area of the Swahili coast in the late first millennium and early second millennium AD, when Swahili polities controlled the southwestern rim of the Indian Ocean trade system.1 Al-Mas'udi, for example, wrote of his v...

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