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