Edward Pollard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3619243 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edward Pollard |
| NOMBRES | Edward |
| APELLIDO | Pollard |
| FIRMA | POLLARD E |
| AFILIACIONES | The Discovery Programme, Dublin, Ireland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7406-7350 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from increasing climate-change pressures and impacts. Cultural-heritage managers are working to increase understanding of these pressures and create ways to assess, mitigate, and/or adapt to change. Coastal-zone assessments (CZA) are a recognized methodology in several national management plans to gather detai…
Rethinking zero deforestation beyond 2020 to more equitably and effectively conserve tropical forests
The Swahili Civilization in Eastern Africa
The urbanization and globalization being experienced in Africa in this early 21st century have deep foundations in the continent’s history. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, theories on the origin of urbanization have developed through the 20th century from an external origin emphasis. There was little recognition of the greater part played by the local people. The producers of these cultures engaged in activities shaped by the environment and …
Valuing the Swahili Cultural Heritage
During the second millennium CE, the medieval settlements of Kilwa in southeastern Tanzania were part of the Indian Ocean trading system that left a clear physical legacy of stone towns along with oral histories and sailing traditions. Modern developmental activities including exploration of oil and gas, house building, and establishment of tourism infrastructures have led to the reuse of heritage site, hence, an inevitable pressure upon heritage…
Settlement and Trade from AD 500 to 1800 at Angoche, Mozambique
Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili
Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya
With the archaeological survey of shipwrecks on the East African coast in its infancy, ship engravings are a source for maritime information for the medieval period. This paper reports on the discovery of engravings incised into the plaster of the internal wall of a fifteenth-century house on the island of Kilepwa at Mida Creek, Kenya. The engravings show Indian Ocean vessels resembling mitepe at rest and at sail, including mast, sail, prow and p…
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean Trade Patterns in the 7th-10th Centuries CE
This article investigates foreign trading patterns along the east African or Swahili coast in the late 1st millennium CE. It is based on recent archaeological investigations around Bagamoyo and Kilwa in Tanzania and a desktop study of imported artefacts in ports from Kenya to Mozambique. Exports from Africa included ivory, gold, and slaves in exchange for beads, cloth, ointments, perfumes, oils, syrups, and decorated bowls from the Middle East, I…
Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania
This article reports on the artefacts and environment of marine ballast and pottery sites identified through inter-tidal and underwater survey around Kilwa, Tanzania, one of the most important medieval sultanates along the east African coast. An inter-tidal site on the limestone fringing reef on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour and an underwater site within the harbour have been dated from associated pottery to c.8th–10th century and the …
Why Land Here? Ports and Harbors in Southeast Tanzania in the Early Second Millennium AD
The east African Swahili ports developed extensive maritime trading links around the Indian Ocean, and supported economic, political, and urban growth in the early second millennium AD. This article identifies ports of varying function and importance in SE Tanzania, and seeks to understand their development in the context of natural harbor advantage, boat technology, sailing practice, and resource needs. Field data from landing places are combine…
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E. Based on historical and archaeological data, we suggest that, despite their proximity to and use of the sea, the level of maritimity of Swahili society increased greatly over time and was only fully realized in the early second millennium C.E. Drawing on recent theo…
The Mesolithic Maritime Landscape on the North Coast of Ireland
A combination of reconstruction of the former coastline and field survey of previously unrecorded sites provides the basis for the study of the maritime landscape and maritime activities around Portrush on the north coast of Ireland during the Mesolithic period. Movements in relative sea-level and geological events indicate significant change in environment and availability of resources, particularly flint, for the coastal community. Evidence sug…
Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Seaborne trade underpinned the economy and society of east Africa's Swahili coast in the first part of the second millennium ad. Field study and examination of satellite images have led to the conclusion that a major construction effort was expressly conducted to safeguard shipping undertaking that trade. The purpose of causeways and platforms initially noted on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour has been reassessed on discovery that simila…
Settlement Adaptation to a Changing Coastline
Any coastline subject to progradation or regression provides scope for archaeological study of maritime settlement changes through time. The Tanzanian Coast is the focus of this study of Swahili adaptations to geomorphological change in a dynamic marine environment. Archaeological survey around Kilwa Kisiwani and Kaole has yielded extensive evidence of coastal change affecting settlement over the last two millennia. Falling relative sea level in …
Developing Sassa
There is constant pressure on field archaeologists to be familiar with the core concepts of a diverse range of specialist disciplines. Soils and sediments are an integral part of archaeological sites, and soil and sedimentary analyses applied to archaeological questions are now recognised as an important branch of geoarchaeology. However, the teaching of soils in archaeology degrees is variable and many archaeologists complain they lack the confi…
Inter-Tidal Causeways and Platforms of the 13th- to 16th-Century City-State of Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Survey of the coastal and inter-tidal zone at Kilwa in Tanzania resulted in the discovery of a series of artificial causeways and platforms at the entrance to the harbour of Kilwa Kisiwani, an important port trading with East Africa and southern Asia from around the 13th century. These appear to be part of a phase of monumental stone building at Kilwa in the 13th to 16th centuries, and represent a prosperous, confident Kilwa, impressing foreigner…
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E. Based on historical and archaeological data, we suggest that, despite their proximity to and use of the sea, the level of maritimity of Swahili society increased greatly over time and was only fully realized in the early second millennium C.E. Drawing on recent theo…
Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Seaborne trade underpinned the economy and society of east Africa's Swahili coast in the first part of the second millennium ad. Field study and examination of satellite images have led to the conclusion that a major construction effort was expressly conducted to safeguard shipping undertaking that trade. The purpose of causeways and platforms initially noted on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour has been reassessed on discovery that simila…
The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean Trade Patterns in the 7th-10th Centuries CE
This article investigates foreign trading patterns along the east African or Swahili coast in the late 1st millennium CE. It is based on recent archaeological investigations around Bagamoyo and Kilwa in Tanzania and a desktop study of imported artefacts in ports from Kenya to Mozambique. Exports from Africa included ivory, gold, and slaves in exchange for beads, cloth, ointments, perfumes, oils, syrups, and decorated bowls from the Middle East, I…
Settlement Adaptation to a Changing Coastline
Any coastline subject to progradation or regression provides scope for archaeological study of maritime settlement changes through time. The Tanzanian Coast is the focus of this study of Swahili adaptations to geomorphological change in a dynamic marine environment. Archaeological survey around Kilwa Kisiwani and Kaole has yielded extensive evidence of coastal change affecting settlement over the last two millennia. Falling relative sea level in …
Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania
This article reports on the artefacts and environment of marine ballast and pottery sites identified through inter-tidal and underwater survey around Kilwa, Tanzania, one of the most important medieval sultanates along the east African coast. An inter-tidal site on the limestone fringing reef on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour and an underwater site within the harbour have been dated from associated pottery to c.8th–10th century and the …
Inter-Tidal Causeways and Platforms of the 13th- to 16th-Century City-State of Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Survey of the coastal and inter-tidal zone at Kilwa in Tanzania resulted in the discovery of a series of artificial causeways and platforms at the entrance to the harbour of Kilwa Kisiwani, an important port trading with East Africa and southern Asia from around the 13th century. These appear to be part of a phase of monumental stone building at Kilwa in the 13th to 16th centuries, and represent a prosperous, confident Kilwa, impressing foreigner…
Valuing the Swahili Cultural Heritage
During the second millennium CE, the medieval settlements of Kilwa in southeastern Tanzania were part of the Indian Ocean trading system that left a clear physical legacy of stone towns along with oral histories and sailing traditions. Modern developmental activities including exploration of oil and gas, house building, and establishment of tourism infrastructures have led to the reuse of heritage site, hence, an inevitable pressure upon heritage…
Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya
With the archaeological survey of shipwrecks on the East African coast in its infancy, ship engravings are a source for maritime information for the medieval period. This paper reports on the discovery of engravings incised into the plaster of the internal wall of a fifteenth-century house on the island of Kilepwa at Mida Creek, Kenya. The engravings show Indian Ocean vessels resembling mitepe at rest and at sail, including mast, sail, prow and p…
Why Land Here? Ports and Harbors in Southeast Tanzania in the Early Second Millennium AD
The east African Swahili ports developed extensive maritime trading links around the Indian Ocean, and supported economic, political, and urban growth in the early second millennium AD. This article identifies ports of varying function and importance in SE Tanzania, and seeks to understand their development in the context of natural harbor advantage, boat technology, sailing practice, and resource needs. Field data from landing places are combine…
Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from increasing climate-change pressures and impacts. Cultural-heritage managers are working to increase understanding of these pressures and create ways to assess, mitigate, and/or adapt to change. Coastal-zone assessments (CZA) are a recognized methodology in several national management plans to gather detai…
Settlement and Trade from AD 500 to 1800 at Angoche, Mozambique
The Swahili Civilization in Eastern Africa
The urbanization and globalization being experienced in Africa in this early 21st century have deep foundations in the continent’s history. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, theories on the origin of urbanization have developed through the 20th century from an external origin emphasis. There was little recognition of the greater part played by the local people. The producers of these cultures engaged in activities shaped by the environment and …
Inter-Tidal Causeways and Platforms of the 13th- to 16th-Century City-State of Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Survey of the coastal and inter-tidal zone at Kilwa in Tanzania resulted in the discovery of a series of artificial causeways and platforms at the entrance to the harbour of Kilwa Kisiwani, an important port trading with East Africa and southern Asia from around the 13th century. These appear to be part of a phase of monumental stone building at Kilwa in the 13th to 16th centuries, and represent a prosperous, confident Kilwa, impressing foreigner…
Developing Sassa
There is constant pressure on field archaeologists to be familiar with the core concepts of a diverse range of specialist disciplines. Soils and sediments are an integral part of archaeological sites, and soil and sedimentary analyses applied to archaeological questions are now recognised as an important branch of geoarchaeology. However, the teaching of soils in archaeology degrees is variable and many archaeologists complain they lack the confi…
Settlement Adaptation to a Changing Coastline
Any coastline subject to progradation or regression provides scope for archaeological study of maritime settlement changes through time. The Tanzanian Coast is the focus of this study of Swahili adaptations to geomorphological change in a dynamic marine environment. Archaeological survey around Kilwa Kisiwani and Kaole has yielded extensive evidence of coastal change affecting settlement over the last two millennia. Falling relative sea level in …
The Mesolithic Maritime Landscape on the North Coast of Ireland
A combination of reconstruction of the former coastline and field survey of previously unrecorded sites provides the basis for the study of the maritime landscape and maritime activities around Portrush on the north coast of Ireland during the Mesolithic period. Movements in relative sea-level and geological events indicate significant change in environment and availability of resources, particularly flint, for the coastal community. Evidence sug…
Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Seaborne trade underpinned the economy and society of east Africa's Swahili coast in the first part of the second millennium ad. Field study and examination of satellite images have led to the conclusion that a major construction effort was expressly conducted to safeguard shipping undertaking that trade. The purpose of causeways and platforms initially noted on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour has been reassessed on discovery that simila…
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E. Based on historical and archaeological data, we suggest that, despite their proximity to and use of the sea, the level of maritimity of Swahili society increased greatly over time and was only fully realized in the early second millennium C.E. Drawing on recent theo…
Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania
This article reports on the artefacts and environment of marine ballast and pottery sites identified through inter-tidal and underwater survey around Kilwa, Tanzania, one of the most important medieval sultanates along the east African coast. An inter-tidal site on the limestone fringing reef on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour and an underwater site within the harbour have been dated from associated pottery to c.8th–10th century and the …
Why Land Here? Ports and Harbors in Southeast Tanzania in the Early Second Millennium AD
The east African Swahili ports developed extensive maritime trading links around the Indian Ocean, and supported economic, political, and urban growth in the early second millennium AD. This article identifies ports of varying function and importance in SE Tanzania, and seeks to understand their development in the context of natural harbor advantage, boat technology, sailing practice, and resource needs. Field data from landing places are combine…
Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili
Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya
With the archaeological survey of shipwrecks on the East African coast in its infancy, ship engravings are a source for maritime information for the medieval period. This paper reports on the discovery of engravings incised into the plaster of the internal wall of a fifteenth-century house on the island of Kilepwa at Mida Creek, Kenya. The engravings show Indian Ocean vessels resembling mitepe at rest and at sail, including mast, sail, prow and p…
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean Trade Patterns in the 7th-10th Centuries CE
This article investigates foreign trading patterns along the east African or Swahili coast in the late 1st millennium CE. It is based on recent archaeological investigations around Bagamoyo and Kilwa in Tanzania and a desktop study of imported artefacts in ports from Kenya to Mozambique. Exports from Africa included ivory, gold, and slaves in exchange for beads, cloth, ointments, perfumes, oils, syrups, and decorated bowls from the Middle East, I…
Settlement and Trade from AD 500 to 1800 at Angoche, Mozambique
Valuing the Swahili Cultural Heritage
During the second millennium CE, the medieval settlements of Kilwa in southeastern Tanzania were part of the Indian Ocean trading system that left a clear physical legacy of stone towns along with oral histories and sailing traditions. Modern developmental activities including exploration of oil and gas, house building, and establishment of tourism infrastructures have led to the reuse of heritage site, hence, an inevitable pressure upon heritage…
Rethinking zero deforestation beyond 2020 to more equitably and effectively conserve tropical forests
The Swahili Civilization in Eastern Africa
The urbanization and globalization being experienced in Africa in this early 21st century have deep foundations in the continent’s history. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, theories on the origin of urbanization have developed through the 20th century from an external origin emphasis. There was little recognition of the greater part played by the local people. The producers of these cultures engaged in activities shaped by the environment and …
Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from increasing climate-change pressures and impacts. Cultural-heritage managers are working to increase understanding of these pressures and create ways to assess, mitigate, and/or adapt to change. Coastal-zone assessments (CZA) are a recognized methodology in several national management plans to gather detai…
Geography (16 obras) · Archaeology (15 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (8 obras) · Swahili (7 obras) · Tanzania (6 obras)