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Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?

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Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

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The prehistory of the Indian Ocean world can be likened to a complex historical jigsaw puzzle, and has attracted deep interest from various disciplines (Chaudhuri 1985; Pearson 2011). The objective has been to find and fit together the various pieces to complete and demystify the puzzle. At present, the assembled pieces reveal a multiplex pattern of cultural contacts, trade, and biological translocations, including intercontinental linkages and interactions that shifted according to region and over time.

I would like to extend my gratitude to the University of Nottingham and the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) for access to library and computer facilities and for giving me time to write this chapter. Special thanks go to Gwyn Campbell for his valuable comments on an earlier version of this chapter and for extending the invitation and encouraging me to put together this chapter.

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Mwacharo, J. (2016). Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?. In: Campbell, G. (eds) Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World . Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33822-4_11

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