The Comoros and their early history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20057736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry T Wright (0000-0002-8175-5565, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 266-276 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Swahili World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315691459-26 |
| OpenAlex | W2910597081 |
| ISBN | 9781315691459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter summarises research on the earliest farming and fishing peoples of the Comoros and their place in the Swahili world. The Comorian Archipelago is an intimate part of that world. The languages spoken on the archipelago provide a baseline for discussing early settlement. Maore, the oldest of the islands, would have been the most attractive to earlier settlers, and Ngazija, the newest, would have been the least. The coasts of Maore including high ridges, mangrove swamps and some of the off-shore islets, were examined by a team on foot between 1975 and 1981. In general, early ceramics were found in gardens and eroded areas. M'Bachilw on a small bay on the west coast of Ngazija was a large settlement, with a visible sherd scatter covering at least 4 hectares, but some may be from the eleventh to twelfth centuries
Ancient history · Archaeology · Archipelago · Bay · Geography · Shore · Swahili · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Geology · Oceanography
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |