In this way, an extensive network including sub-Saharan rural areas and trans-Saharan trade routes took shape. The glass beads uncovered in Africa do not only come from the well-known junk cargoes ...

This strongly suggests that trans-Saharan trade began hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Caravans of thousands of camels laden with packages once crossed the desert, bringing gold ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which ... to an early period of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using a combination of public ...

As the best preserved of ten similar fortresses in the Lobi area, part of a larger group of around a hundred stone-built enclosures, they are part of a network of settlements that flourished at the ...

on the African role in the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trade. She observes that the four-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of slaves in Virginia coincides with questions about guilt ...