Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange System in the Context ofHuman–Environment Interaction

This volume comprises a selection of chapters by leading scholars on aspects of early exchange between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW)—a macro-region running from Africa to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East. The rationale for regarding this region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system. Unlike the Atlantic and Pacific, the IOW seas (the Indian Ocean and the Indonesian and China Seas) are capped by a huge continent—Asia. During northern hemisphere summers, as the Asian continent warms up, hot air rises from the land, causing a vacuum that, through the process of convection, sucks in moist air from the oceans to the south. This creates the southwest monsoon. In winter, the opposite process occurs, and air is expelled from the continent over the oceans, creating the northeast monsoon

Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Climatology · East Asia · East Asian Monsoon · Geography · Indian ocean · Indonesian · Monsoon · Monsoon of South Asia · Northern Hemisphere · South asia · Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Geology · Oceanography

• Settling Madagascar

  Peter Mitchell•The Journal of Island and Coastal…•2019

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• Salt production during the Plain Ware Phase along the Swahili coast of Tanzania

  Emanuel T Kessy•Azania Archaeological Research in…•2022

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• The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa

  Open Access•James Denbow•Archaeology and Ethnography of…•2013

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• Medieval Africa, 1250–1800

  Open Access•Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore•Medieval Africa, 1250-1800•2001

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• Islamic trade, shipping, port-states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries

  Open Access•Pearson Michael•The New Cambridge History Of…•2000

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• ReOrient

  Andre Gunder Frank•ReORIENT•1998

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• Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean

  Open Access•Anil K Gupta, David M Anderson et al.•Nature•2003

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• Asian monsoon oscillations in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau since the late glacial as interpreted from visible reflectance of Qinghai Lake sediments

  Open Access•J Ji, Juntai Shen et al.•Earth and Planetary Science Letters•2005

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• General characteristics of temperature variation in China during the last two millennia

  Open Access•Bao Yang, Achim Braeuning et al.•Geophysical Research Letters•2002

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• Asia before Europe

  K N Chaudhuri•Asia before Europe•1990

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• Shanga

  Helen W Brown, Mark Horton et al.•Shanga•1996

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• The Swahili

  John Middleton, Mark Horton•The Swahili•2000

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• The Periplus Maris Erythraei

  Lionel Casson•Periplus Maris Erythraei•2012

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• Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean

  Open Access•K N Chaudhuri•Trade and Civilisation in the…•1985

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• The Swahili

  Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear•Swahili•1985

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• Horn and Crescent

  Open Access•Randall Lee Pouwels•Horn and Crescent•1987

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• A synthesis of abrupt changes in the Asian summer monsoon since the last deglaciation

  Open Access•Carrie Morrill, Jonathan T Overpeck et al.•The Holocene•2003

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• Myth and History

  Open Access•Paul Ottino•History in Africa•1982

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• Interregional Interaction in Southern Africa

  Open Access•John Calabrese, John A Calabrese•African Archaeological Review•2000

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• State, Merchant Capital, and Gender Relations in Southern Mozambique to the End of the Nineteenth Century

  Edward A Alpers, Edward Alpers•African Economic History•1984

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• African Civilizations

  Andrew B Smith, Graham Connah•The South African Archaeological…•2002

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• Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal in the Early Centuries AD

  Open Access•Himanshu Prabha Ray•Studies in History•1990

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• Madagascar and Indonesia

  Open Access•Pierre Vérin, Henry Wright•Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific…•1999

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• Persian Gulf Seafaring and East Africa

  Thomas M Ricks•African Historical Studies•1970

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• China's Discovery of Africa

  L Carrington Goodrich, J J L Duyvendak•Artibus Asiae•1950

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• Malay Influence on Malagasy

  K Alexander Adelaar•Oceanic Linguistics•1989

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• An Early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia, 900–1300 CE

  Open Access•Geoff Wade•Journal of Southeast Asian Studies•2009

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• The Early History of the Sultanate of Angoche

  Open Access•M D D Newitt, Malyn Newitt•The Journal of African History•1972

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• The Rise and Fall of Zimbabwe

  Open Access•T N Huffman•The Journal of African History•1972

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• Early trade and raw materials in South Central Africa

  Open Access•Brian M Fagan•The Journal of African History•1969

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• East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

  Open Access•Nicole Boivin, A Crowther et al.•Journal of World Prehistory•2013

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• The prehistory of the Austronesian-speaking peoples

  Open Access•Robert Blust•Journal of World Prehistory•1995

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• Situating Madagascar

  Chantal Radimilahy, Chantal M Radimilahy et al.•Azania Archaeological Research in…•2015

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• A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar

  Open Access•D A Burney, D Burney•Journal of Human Evolution•2004

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• A New Look at the Later Prehistory of the Kalahari

  Open Access•James Denbow•The Journal of African History•1986

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• The Austronesians

  Open Access•P Bellwood, J J Fox et al.•The Austronesians•2006

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• African Economic History

  Frederick Cooper, Faith Cooper et al.•The International Journal of…•1988

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• A Thousand Years of East Africa

  Randall L Pouwels, Jeanna Sutton et al.•The International Journal of…•1992

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• Swahili Origins

  Adria Laviolette, Thomas H Wilson et al.•The International Journal of…•1994

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• The World of the Swahili

  Daniel F Mccall, J Middleton•The International Journal of…•1993

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• The Commerce between the Roman Empire and India

  E H Warmington•Geographical Journal•1928

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• The Emergence of China as a Sea Power During the Late Sung and Early Yuan Periods

  Jung-Pang Lo•The Far Eastern Quarterly•1955

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• Early Chinese Notices of East African Territories

  Friedrich Hirth•Journal of the American Oriental…•1909

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• The Indian Ocean

  Roderich Ptak, Kenneth Mcpherson•Journal of the American Oriental…•1997

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• Cognitive studies of the iron age in Southern Africa

  T N Huffman•World Archaeology•1986

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• Ethiopia and the Red Sea

  Charles W Mcclellan, Mordechai Abir•The International Journal of…•1983

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• Swahili Culture and the Nature of East Coast Settlement

  James De Vere Allen, James D Allen•The International Journal of…•1981

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• Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa

  Jane Alexander•World Archaeology•2001

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• Histoire de Madagascar

  Open Access•Hubert Deschamps•Population•1961

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• Malgache et maanjan

  Isidore Dyen, Otto Chr Dahl•Language•1953

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• The Role of Technology in the African past

  Ralph A Austen, Daniel R Headrick et al.•African Studies Review•1983

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• Horn and Crescent

  Patricia W Romero, Randall L Pouwels et al.•Canadian Journal of African…•1988

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• Rise and Fall of Axum, Ethiopia

  Open Access•Karl W Butzer•American Antiquity•1981

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• The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa

  Open Access•Dorothea Bedigian•American Anthropologist•2001

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• A New Look at Culture and Trade on the Azanian Coast

  Felix A Chami, Paul J Msemwa et al.•Current Anthropology•1997

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• Roman Beads from the Rufiji Delta, Tanzania

  Felix A Chami•Current Anthropology•1999

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