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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...