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Bead Grinders and Early Swahili Household Economy: Analysis of an Assemblage from Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, 7th-10th Centuries AD

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Flexner, James; Fleisher, Jeffrey; LaViolette, Adria

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This paper focuses on a specific class of locally made artifacts known in the archaeological literature of the eastern African coast as bead grinders. Bead grinders are discarded potsherds or stone cobbles distinguished by long grooves abraded into their

dc.contributor.authorFlexner, James
dc.contributor.authorFleisher, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.authorLaViolette, Adria
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:14:29Z
dc.identifier.issn1612-1651
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/17445
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on a specific class of locally made artifacts known in the archaeological literature of the eastern African coast as bead grinders. Bead grinders are discarded potsherds or stone cobbles distinguished by long grooves abraded into their
dc.publisherAfrica Magna Verlag
dc.sourceJournal of African Archaeology
dc.subjectKeywords: Bead grinder; Household economy; Shell beads; Swahili; Tanzania
dc.titleBead Grinders and Early Swahili Household Economy: Analysis of an Assemblage from Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, 7th-10th Centuries AD
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume6
dc.date.issued2008
local.identifier.absfor210103 - Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5399910xPUB1
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationFlexner, James, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationFleisher, Jeffrey, Rice University
local.contributor.affiliationLaViolette, Adria, University of Virginia
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage161
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage181
local.identifier.doi10.3213/1612-1651-10110
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T11:36:29Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-65849500244
local.identifier.thomsonID000267284200001
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