New Faces for Old Forts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8866437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Q Kelly (0000-0001-9455-5100, corresponding author), Sean Kelly (0000-0002-2415-0375) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 44-44 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9933 • E-ISSN: 1937-2108 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3345882 |
| OpenAlex | W1990980020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Gold was in short supply on European markets, and this was nearly a generation before Columbus and Cortez were to open the treasures of the Americas to Europe. The Portuguese probably overestimated the amount of gold available in Ghana. What they saw consisted chiefly of ornaments which had been accumulated over generations by Africans who had little means for exporting them until the Portuguese arrived
Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |