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SUMMARY:Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Afr
 ica - Abigail J. Moffett (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\,
  University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Kiah Johnson
DESCRIPTION:New research combined with innovative methodological and theor
 etical approaches provides critical opportunities to challenge and enrich 
 perspectives on global connections in past societies. Despite early eviden
 ce of contact between communities on the southern African coastline and th
 e wider Indian Ocean maritime network from 600 CE\, the relationship betwe
 en coastal communities and the networks that linked them to the gold produ
 cing regions of the interior and the maritime routes of the Indian Ocean r
 egion remain poorly understood. Our current project\, ENTANGLED\, brings t
 ogether distinct lines of enquiry to study the nature and impact of global
  connections in the southern African region during the Global Middle Ages 
 (AD 500-1500).\n\nEntangled is a five-year Starting Grant awarded by the E
 RC and funded by the UKRI. In this presentation we provide an overview of 
 the aims of the project\, addressing the development of maritime economies
  in southern Mozambique\, the nature and directionality of trade routes th
 at linked interior and coastal communities\, and the value of traded items
  across diverse paths of exchange and consumption. We present the results 
 of our recent fieldwork on Bazaruto Archipelago\, the adjacent mainland ar
 eas\, and test excavations at the newly identified Zimbabwe type site of N
 gomene. Drawing on these findings\, we discuss evidence for overlapping ne
 tworks of interaction linking coastal and inland communities in southern A
 frica\, bringing to the fore the entangled nature of ‘global’ maritime
  economies.\n\nTeams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a
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LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
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