Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World [Paperback]

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.

.1. Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange to circa 1300 Gwyn Campbell.-

.2. Origins of Southeast Asian Shipping and Maritime Communication across the Indian Ocean Waruno Mahdi.-

.3. Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships Pierre-Yves Manguin.-

.4. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard Alexander Adelaar.-

. 5. Early Greek and Latin Sources on the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa Ephraim Lytle.-

.6. A GIS Approach to Finding the Metropolis of Rhapta Carl Hughes and Ruben Post.-

. 7. Contact between East Africa and India in the first Millennium CE Sunil Gupta.-

.8. Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the First Millennium CE: The Glass Bead Evidence Marilee Wood.-

.9. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE1000 CE: The Archaeological Perspective Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane, Chantal Radimilahy, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Paul Sinclair, and Malika Virah-Sawmy.-

.10. A genomic investigation of the Malagasy confirms the Highland/Coastal divide, and the lack of Middle Eastern gene flow Jason A. Hodgson.-

.11. Intercontinental networks between Africa and Asia across the Indian Ocean: whlãÒ