Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD

• Autores: Ann B. Stahl, Peter W. Stahl
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 78, Nº 299, 2004, págs. 86-101
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara