Matthew Pawlowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1425634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Pawlowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pawlowicz |
| SIGNATURE | PAWLOWICZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania
This paper offers a mesoscale approach to the study of the urban landscape surrounding the fourteenth–sixteenth century Swahili site of Songo Mnara just off the southern Tanzanian coast. The study is based on a systematic, intensive survey of the town’s immediate island hinterland. Such an approach, we argue, exposes a set of activities that extend out from the urban core and situates the traditional objects of study (urban center, rural villages…
Capturing People on the Move
Beyond Commoner and Elite in Swahili Society
Mikindani and the southern coast
Mikindani and the southern coast - 1
Gede
Competition and Ceramics on the East African Coast
The Swahili communities of the East African coast have often been characterized as middlemen, defined by their ability to navigate – often quite literally – the economic networks linking the African Interior and the Indian Ocean rim. Yet diversity has increasingly been recognized between Swahili communities. In this paper I add to the awareness and explication of Swahili diversity through comparative analysis of the archaeology of the southern Ta…
Environmental Archaeology at Mikindani, Tanzania
The historic port town of Mikindani is situated along the southern portion of the Swahili coast. Archaeological investigations in this region of coastal East Africa yield evidence of occupation since the last centuries BCE and intensive settlement since the middle of the first millennium CE. This long settlement history suggests that people in the region have had an expansive, wide-ranging impact on local ecological conditions in the region. This…
Swahili Historical Chronicles from an Archaeological Perspective
This chapter focuses on the historical chronicles of three Swahili towns on the coast of southern Tanzania, drawing on archaeological data from survey and excavation in the region. More specifically, it examines how the three chronicles challenge the dichotomy between history and prehistory on two levels. First, as transcribed oral traditions, Swahili chronicles break down the dichotomy between oral and written sources, and thus implicitly betwee…
A Review of Ceramics from Tanzania, Malawi, and Northern Mozambique, with Implications for Swahili Archaeology
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World: an archaeological exploration of southern Tanzania. University of Virginia, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2012.677331 Large-scale systems of int
Modelling the Swahili past
The Swahili of the East African coast formed one of the most studied and best known societies of Sub-Saharan African antiquity. The most popular model of Swahili society recognises their roots among Iron Age African communities but views them as largely facing outwards — away from the rest of Africa – and defines them primarily through their activities in the Indian Ocean sphere, especially their participation in inter-regional commerce and the i…
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
This dissertation studies the functioning of large-scale systems of interaction and exchange on the East African Swahili coast by exploring their influence in the region around the town of Mikindani in southern Tanzania over the past two millennia. Evidence of connections across those systems – to the Middle East, South Asia, China, and the Mediterranean – exists in the form of trade goods, cultural and religious similarities, and historical docu…
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World: an archaeological exploration of southern Tanzania. University of Virginia, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2012.677331 Large-scale systems of int
Modelling the Swahili past
The Swahili of the East African coast formed one of the most studied and best known societies of Sub-Saharan African antiquity. The most popular model of Swahili society recognises their roots among Iron Age African communities but views them as largely facing outwards — away from the rest of Africa – and defines them primarily through their activities in the Indian Ocean sphere, especially their participation in inter-regional commerce and the i…
Beyond Commoner and Elite in Swahili Society
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania
This paper offers a mesoscale approach to the study of the urban landscape surrounding the fourteenth–sixteenth century Swahili site of Songo Mnara just off the southern Tanzanian coast. The study is based on a systematic, intensive survey of the town’s immediate island hinterland. Such an approach, we argue, exposes a set of activities that extend out from the urban core and situates the traditional objects of study (urban center, rural villages…
Capturing People on the Move
Environmental Archaeology at Mikindani, Tanzania
The historic port town of Mikindani is situated along the southern portion of the Swahili coast. Archaeological investigations in this region of coastal East Africa yield evidence of occupation since the last centuries BCE and intensive settlement since the middle of the first millennium CE. This long settlement history suggests that people in the region have had an expansive, wide-ranging impact on local ecological conditions in the region. This…
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
This dissertation studies the functioning of large-scale systems of interaction and exchange on the East African Swahili coast by exploring their influence in the region around the town of Mikindani in southern Tanzania over the past two millennia. Evidence of connections across those systems – to the Middle East, South Asia, China, and the Mediterranean – exists in the form of trade goods, cultural and religious similarities, and historical docu…
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
This dissertation studies the functioning of large-scale systems of interaction and exchange on the East African Swahili coast by exploring their influence in the region around the town of Mikindani in southern Tanzania over the past two millennia. Evidence of connections across those systems – to the Middle East, South Asia, China, and the Mediterranean – exists in the form of trade goods, cultural and religious similarities, and historical docu…
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World
Finding Their Place in the Swahili World: an archaeological exploration of southern Tanzania. University of Virginia, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2012.677331 Large-scale systems of int
Modelling the Swahili past
The Swahili of the East African coast formed one of the most studied and best known societies of Sub-Saharan African antiquity. The most popular model of Swahili society recognises their roots among Iron Age African communities but views them as largely facing outwards — away from the rest of Africa – and defines them primarily through their activities in the Indian Ocean sphere, especially their participation in inter-regional commerce and the i…
Swahili Historical Chronicles from an Archaeological Perspective
This chapter focuses on the historical chronicles of three Swahili towns on the coast of southern Tanzania, drawing on archaeological data from survey and excavation in the region. More specifically, it examines how the three chronicles challenge the dichotomy between history and prehistory on two levels. First, as transcribed oral traditions, Swahili chronicles break down the dichotomy between oral and written sources, and thus implicitly betwee…
A Review of Ceramics from Tanzania, Malawi, and Northern Mozambique, with Implications for Swahili Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology at Mikindani, Tanzania
The historic port town of Mikindani is situated along the southern portion of the Swahili coast. Archaeological investigations in this region of coastal East Africa yield evidence of occupation since the last centuries BCE and intensive settlement since the middle of the first millennium CE. This long settlement history suggests that people in the region have had an expansive, wide-ranging impact on local ecological conditions in the region. This…
Competition and Ceramics on the East African Coast
The Swahili communities of the East African coast have often been characterized as middlemen, defined by their ability to navigate – often quite literally – the economic networks linking the African Interior and the Indian Ocean rim. Yet diversity has increasingly been recognized between Swahili communities. In this paper I add to the awareness and explication of Swahili diversity through comparative analysis of the archaeology of the southern Ta…
Mikindani and the southern coast
Mikindani and the southern coast - 1
Gede
Beyond Commoner and Elite in Swahili Society
Capturing People on the Move
Exploring Swahili urbanism through survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania
This paper offers a mesoscale approach to the study of the urban landscape surrounding the fourteenth–sixteenth century Swahili site of Songo Mnara just off the southern Tanzanian coast. The study is based on a systematic, intensive survey of the town’s immediate island hinterland. Such an approach, we argue, exposes a set of activities that extend out from the urban core and situates the traditional objects of study (urban center, rural villages…
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Geography (11 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Swahili (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Tanzania (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works)