Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a "world" is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange System in the Context ofHuman–Environment Interaction....Pages 1-24 Origins of Southeast Asian Shipping and Maritime Communication Across the Indian Ocean....Pages 25-49 Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships....Pages 51-76 Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard....Pages 77-112 Early Greek and Latin Sources on the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa....Pages 113-134 A GIS Approach to Finding the Metropolis of Rhapta....Pages 135-155 Contact between East Africa and India in the First Millennium CE....Pages 157-171 Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the First Millennium CE: The Glass Bead Evidence....Pages 173-193 Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: An Archaeological Perspective....Pages 195-230 A Genomic Investigation of the Malagasy Confirms the Highland–Coastal Divide, and the Lack of Middle Eastern Gene Flow....Pages 231-254 Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?....Pages 255-274 East Africa in the Early Indian Ocean World Slave Trade: The Zanj Revolt Reconsidered....Pages 275-303 Back Matter....Pages 305-378 Gwyn Campbell, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.