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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ann B. Stahl  and
Peter W. Stahl
Ann B. Stahl
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 USA
Peter W. Stahl
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 USA
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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

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West AfricaSaharan tradeivory
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 86 - 101
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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