Kingwell-Banham, E;
Bohingamuwa, W;
Perera, N;
Adikari, G;
Crowther, A;
Fuller, DQ;
Boivin, N;
(2018)
Spice and rice: Pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka.
Antiquity
, 92
(366)
pp. 1478-1491.
10.15184/aqy.2018.168.
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Abstract
Lying on the north-west coast of Sri Lanka, the ancient port of Mantai was ideally situated as a 'hub' for trade between East and West from the first millennium BC onwards. Excavations at the site were interrupted by civil war in 1984, delaying publication of these results and leading to the underestimation of Mantai's importance in the development of Early Historic Indian Ocean trade. Renewed excavations in 2009-2010 yielded extensive archaeobotanical remains, which, alongside an improved understanding of the site's chronology, provide important new insights into the development of local and regional trade routes and direct evidence for early trade in the valuable spices upon which later empires were founded.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Spice and rice: Pepper, cloves and everyday cereal foods at the ancient port of Mantai, Sri Lanka |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2018.168 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.168 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10068087 |
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