• Archaeology of Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 300 BC-AD 700 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-02)
      In the millennium after 300 BC, the western Indian Ocean emerged as a main hub of Old World exchange. Study of this commerce long depended on separate regional archaeologies and a handful of literary sources with Western/Roman ...
    • Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-18)
      The ancient East African kingdom of Aksum gradually adopted Christianity from the early- to mid-fourth-century reign of Ezana onwards. The well-known narrative of the late Roman church-historian Rufinus relates a top-down ...
    • The Meroitic empire: trade and cultural influences in an Indian ocean context 

      Håland, Randi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)
      The Meroitic Empire was a powerful Kushite state in the Middle Nile region of the Sudan, lasting from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE. In the early phase from the ninth century BCE, the seat of power was ...
    • Networks and social cohesion in ancient Indian Ocean trade: geography, ethnicity, religion 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-02)
      The Indian Ocean is famous for its well-documented Jewish and Islamic trading networks of the medieval and early modern periods. Social networks that eased the challenges of cross-cultural trade have a much longer history ...