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16 novembre 2017
- doi: 10.58079/at3d
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Enslaved persons Towns, Market Specie Donations Presents Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) Archaeological digs Archaeological excavations Ruins Excavation sites (Archaeology) Digs (Archaeology) East Africa, Western Western Africa West Africa or (métal)Citer ce document
Fabrice Melka, « Essouk - Tadmekka. An Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Market Town », Carnet d’Afriques, revue d’histoire, ID : 10.58079/at3d
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Edited by Sam Nixon, University of East Anglia. Essouk-Tadmekka presents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ivory to the Mediterranean world. Excavation of Essouk-Tadmekka’s ruins – in Saharan West Africa – has enabled Sam Nixon and a team of scholars to better understand this town described by early Arabic geographers, therein providi...