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View to a Kilwa - The Medieval Swahili Coast (CLASSIC) - Ep 182

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In this re-release of an EARLY classic, take a whirlwind tour of the Swahili coast and the economic and cultural exchanges over land and sea it has enjoyed for more than a thousand years, before zooming in on the very powerful, and very cool, medieval sultanate of Kilwa Kisawani.

Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!

Links
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  • East Africa: Five Million Years of History (The Public Medievalist)
  • Early African History: fire, farming, Egypt, and the Bantu (Quatr.us)
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  • Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (Lalibela House: 1961)
  • Recipe for ambergris and eggs
  • Early Global Connections: East Africa between Asia, and Mediterranean Europe (Global Middle Ages)
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  • A lost city reveals the grandeur of medieval African civilization (Gizmodo)
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  • Zhao B. 2012. Global Trade and Swahili Cosmopolitan Material Culture: Chinese-Style Ceramic Shards from Sanje ya Kati and Songo Mnara (Kilwa, Tanzania). Journal of World History 23(1):41-85.
  • Stone Towns of the Swahili Coast (Archaeology)

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