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Archaeology of Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 300 BC–AD 700
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In the millennium after 300 BC, the western Indian Ocean emerged as a main hub of Old World exchange. Study of this commerce long depended on separate regional archaeologies and a handful of literary sources with Western/Roman bias. A recent surge in scholarly interest has led to a vast increase in data that has fostered a more balanced understanding of the commercial, human, and material aspects of ancient Indian Ocean trade. This review summarizes recent research on the topic and assesses its significance to wider scholarly debates on scale, organization, connectivity, agency, and social cohesion in ancient trade and exchange.
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This review synthesizes two decades of archaeological research on western Indian Ocean trade (c. 300 BC–AD 700), arguing that it was large-scale, long-lived, multicultural, and not merely Roman or “Indo-Roman” trade. It surveys regional evidence from South Asia, the Persian Gulf, South Arabia, Socotra, East Africa, and the Red Sea, and calls for integrating Indian Ocean data into wider archaeological debates on exchange.
Key findings
- Recent work shows western Indian Ocean commerce was large-scale, long-lived, and extensive, involving subsistence goods as well as luxuries; older Mediterranean-centric labels such as “Indo-Roman trade” capture only a fraction of it.
- Arikamedu’s occupation stretched at least from the second century BC to the 10th century AD; Rouletted Ware has been found at approximately 150 sites, including at least 11 outside South Asia; by 2008, 36 South Asian sites had yielded Roman/late Roman amphorae and Mesopotamian torpedo jars.
- Key ports and nodes include Khor Rori (fourth century BC–fifth century AD), Qana (established first century AD, abandoned early seventh century), Berenike (12 written languages; 7.55 kg of black pepper), and the Hoq cave on Socotra (approximately 250 inscriptions in South Arabian, Indian Brahmi, Ethiopic Geʽez, and Greek, plus a Palmyrene Aramaic tablet dated AD 257–258).
- Evidence points to multicultural and mobile communities: imported ceramics from Arabia, East Africa/Aksum, Mesopotamia, and India; Mediterranean-style ship timbers and fittings combined with Indian teak and cotton sails; and religion as a possible group marker, including a synagogue at Qana and temples/church at Berenike.
Methods
- Narrative review and synthesis of research published over the previous 20 years, not new primary excavation or analysis.
- Regional surveys cover South Asia, the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, South Arabia and Socotra, East Africa, and the Red Sea, with emphasis on the western Indian Ocean and the millennium after c. 300 BC.
- Draws on archaeological material (ceramics, beads, ship remains, archaeobotany, epigraphy) and includes philology/history only when directly related to material evidence or discussed sites; assesses significance for debates on scale, organization, connectivity, agency, and social cohesion.
Limitations
- The author states that coverage is limited to the western Indian Ocean (Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea), with Bay of Bengal and eastern Indian Ocean coverage intentionally limited; emphasis is on the millennium after c. 300 BC; and the work is a review of recent research rather than an analysis of underlying research questions.
- The author notes that many major ports known from literary sources and many smaller maritime communities remain unidentified; the Arabian Red Sea coast and the African coast south of Egypt (except Adulis) are still virtually unknown; many known sites have been little more than registered; and wreck sites have not yielded identifiable ship remains.
- The text makes evident that trade volume cannot be quantified, recovered imported pottery would fit within a single ancient vessel, ethnicity is difficult to infer archaeologically, some identifications are tentative, and early East African contact claims have been met with skepticism.
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“It is thus unrelated to the monsoon trade with Roman-period Egypt”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Begley 1983 source
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The Introduction (page not provided) reports Rouletted ware at Berenike, Egypt, and suggests the sherds were possessions of Indian merchants or sailors. The Conclusion argues that the ware was indigenous to South Asia, but that concerns its origin, not whether it was connected to trade with Roman-period Egypt. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Along with the spectacular epigraphic record of approximately 250 inscriptions from the Hoq cave (Dridi 2002;Robin and Gorea 2002;Strauch 2012;Strauch and Bukharin 2004), these finds now place Socotra as a major node in the pre-Islamic Indian Ocean network.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Dridi 2002 source
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In “Une île étrange” (p. 410), the paper places Socotra on a major maritime exchange route visited by many navigators. Its account of the Hôq finds (p. 409) supports evidence of ancient visitors, but it does not establish the stronger claim that the finds make Socotra a major node in the pre-Islamic Indian Ocean network. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Rests on an assumption: The crops aloe, Dragon's blood, and frankincense on Socotra were commercially important in antiquity and were almost certainly exploited.
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“It has since been shown to develop out of regional traditions in South Asia, spanning back at least to the second century BC.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Begley 1983 source
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The Results describe Grey ware as an apparent ancestral form of Rouletted ware, and the Introduction dates Grey ware to 500–300 BC, supporting a South Asian tradition older than the second century BC. The Conclusion says the chemical similarity strongly suggests that the later fine wares were indigenous to South Asia, but it does not establish their development from Grey ware as a demonstrated fact. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“By 2008, evidence of commercial contacts with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf had been recorded from 36 sites in the form of Roman and late Roman amphorae and Mesopotamian torpedo jars”
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- Partly supportedcites Tomber 2007b sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The ‘Imports from the Roman Empire’ section treats amphorae as evidence of exchange with India, and ‘Contexts of the jars’ documents torpedo jars at Indian sites. The Discussion links the vessels to routes through the Red Sea and the Gulf. However, the paper reports 18 recognised Indian sites with torpedo jars; the passages found do not substantiate the claimed total of 36 sites for the combined finds. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tomber 2008, pp. 126-127, 176
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“Merchant communities in the western Indian Ocean arguably also seem to have organized according to other variables in addition to ethnicity, including language (Ray 2006), geographical origin, and religion (Seland 2013).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ray 2006 source
- Supportedcites Seland 2013 source
The Abstract says that geographical origin, ethnicity, and religion may have been different bases for trust among western Indian Ocean merchant communities. The section on geography (p. 379) also discusses shared language as a possible source of cohesion, though the citing sentence separately cites Ray for language. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Imported late Roman Aila/Aqaba amphorae are reported from the German excavations at the Himyarite highland capital of Zafar (Damgaard 2009, pp. 87-88;Raith et al. 2013)”
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“A major breakthrough of the excavations at Egyptian Red Sea ports is that ship fittings from Myos Hormos and timbers from Berenike document that at least some of the vessels operating out of Egyptian Red Sea ports were of the type common in the Mediterranean (Blue 2009;Blue et al. 2011;Sidebotham and Zych 2010, pp. 19-20).”
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“Berenike has so far yielded evidence of 12 written languages, including South Arabian, Palmyrene Aramaic, and Tamil-Brahmi (Sidebotham 2004;2011, pp. 74-75;Sidebotham and Zych 2010, p. 12).”
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“Maritime activities in the port were their busiest following the construction of a wharf built of amphorae, earth, rocks, and ceramic debris late in the first century BC or early in the first century AD, (Blue 2011;Peacock and Blue 2006, pp. 67-94).”
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“The formation of urban centers along the coast was clearly under way toward the end of this period (Juma 2004;Sinclair 1982)”
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“but thus far pre-Islamic port sites, with the exception of Aden, which is completely covered under later habitation, have not been securely identified, much less surveyed or excavated.”
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“Surface ceramics show a range of vessels from the Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on the late period, and amphorae of the Aila/Aqaba type which also are found at Qana, Zafar, and Aksum.”
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“late Roman/ early Islamic amphorae that have been shown to originate from kilns in Aila (Aqaba) in present-day Jordan (Parker 2009;Whitcomb 2001).These are reported from sites along the Red Sea (Damgaard 2009, pp. 87-88;Peacock and Blue 2007a, pp. 79-108, 130;Pedersen 2008;Raith et al. 2013;Wilding 1989), Southern Arabia (Sedov 2010b, pp. 465-466) and India (Tomber 2009, p. 48).”
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“The port experienced peaks of operation in its early days, in the first century AD and again in the fourth and fifth centuries, with limited evidence of activity before or after.The site was abandoned by the mid-sixth century (Sidebotham 2011;Sidebotham et al. 2008, pp. 171-175).”
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“In the centuries around the turn of the first millennium AD, however, it was a crossroad of commerce based on the monsoon winds.”
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“The site likely was the main port of the early South Arabian kingdom of Hadramawt, which was arguably the main supplier of frankincense in the ancient world.”
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“A recent surge in scholarly interest has led to a vast increase in data that has fostered a more balanced understanding of the commercial, human, and material aspects of ancient Indian Ocean trade.”
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“After the turn of the millennium, it increasingly makes sense to speak of archaeology in the western Indian Ocean as an integrated field, where the different regional archaeologies of the Indian Ocean rim, including the very significant parts controlled by the Roman Empire, give their share to a holistic understanding of the ancient exchange systems based on the monsoon winds.”
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“Francis (1991) demonstrated the site's important role in the production of Indo-Pacific beads, thus highlighting its eastward connections along and across the Bay of Bengal and the diversity of trading links.”
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“although it may have been inspired by Hellenistic-period pottery encountered in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf”
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“Thus South Arabia and Northwest India likely played key roles in connecting the Red Sea-Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf -Arabian Sea corridors of exchange.”
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“The new studies have established a much longer chronology for the settlement than was previously thought, starting in the fourth century BC and extending to the fifth century AD”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Avanzini 2002
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“The discovery of the cave sanctuary on the seemingly remote island provided not only an evocative reminder of the multicultural nature of ancient world trade, but also emphasized that the western Indian Ocean was never a barrier to contact; rather it is the proximate and natural medium of communication for people living along its rim.”
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“Their presence demonstrates not only a multiplicity of routes, ports, and carriers but also the durability and longevity of commercial contacts with the western Indian Ocean throughout the Indian Early Historic period (c.300 BC-AD 500) and into the early medieval period.”
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“Along with locally produced pottery and beads, finds include building structures, a wharf, a log boat, imported Mediterranean glass, Roman Terra Sigillata pottery, and a range of amphorae (Mediterranean transport jars), all dating to the first century BC through the second century AD.”
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“The widely distributed Rouletted Ware, first identified at Arikamedu but since found at approximately 150 sites, including at least 11 outside South Asia”
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“It became clear that the site had a much longer and more complex history of occupation than the original excavators had believed, not confined to the first two centuries AD, but stretching at least from the second century BC to the 10th century AD”
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- Not matchedcites Begley et al. 1996, pp. 8-40
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“In the millennium after 300 BC, the western Indian Ocean emerged as a main hub of Old World exchange.”
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“Recently, however, it has come under criticism with regard to early modern trade on the grounds that it presupposes the existence of a homeland that is lacking in the Jewish, Armenian, and Islamic networks operating in the same region in later history (Aslanian 2011).”
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“Adulis, on the coast of present-day Eritrea, was the main coastal settlement of the kingdom of Aksum and was occupied from the first millennium BC to the early Islamic period.”
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“Egyptian Berenike was established in the third century BC as a part of the Ptolemaic effort to access Red Sea resources.”
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“If Indian Ocean trade was important to the people taking part in it, then it had an impact on the lives of people living all over the ancient world, from the Mediterranean to Africa, India, and arguably even China.”
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“the finds reinforce the impression long prevalent in the scholarly literature of the Aksumite kingdom as an actor in ancient Indian Ocean exchange from the first century AD onward but with increased importance in the fourth to early seventh centuries.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Munro-Hay et al. 1989
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“Recent sociological and anthropological scholarship, however, is rapidly moving beyond ethnicity as a prime identity marker and also tries to address other kinds of “groupness” (Brubaker 2005(Brubaker , 2009)).”
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“arguably many sites on the Indian Ocean rim make equal or, in some cases, even more sense when approached from a maritime perspective compared with a hinterland point of view.”
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“While network analyses of land-based flows of commodities are hampered by the fact that people are known to often choose an apparently suboptimal route of travel for reasons of safety or transaction costs (Seland 2012a), maritime networks can more readily be reconstructed based on concepts such as centrality, gravity, and proximal point analysis (Knappett et al. 2008;Rivers et al. 2013).”
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“Nevertheless, there is no doubt anymore that Indian Ocean commerce was large scale, long-lived, and extensive in terms of the places, vessels, people, and economic assets involved.”
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“Network analysis might be a way to address long-standing questions in western Indian archaeology on the relationship between long-distance cross-ocean navigation and short-distance coastal cabotage.”
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“The research described above makes it clear that well-worn labels such as “Indo-Roman trade” or “Rome’s trade with the East” allow us to grasp only a fraction of what ancient Indian Ocean exchange was about.”
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Southern Arabia was a main supplier of frankincense and myrrh.
“The region was a main supplier of frankincense and myrrh.”
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The crops aloe, Dragon's blood, and frankincense on Socotra were commercially important in antiquity and were almost certainly exploited.
“These crops were commercially important in antiquity and were almost certainly exploited.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
All major ports taking part in Indian Ocean trade would also be home to a foreign diaspora.
“it seems safe to assume that all major ports taking part in Indian Ocean trade also would be home to a foreign diaspora.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Seland, E. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Bergen (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Seland, Eivind Heldaas
- Venue
- Journal of Archaeological Research
- Published
- 2014-04-02
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 367-402
- ISSN
- 1059-0161 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7756
- OpenAlex
- W2170118542
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 262
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 182.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Archaeological Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Keywords
- Western Indian Ocean, ancient trade, maritime trade, trade networks, connectivity, agency, social cohesion, Roman sources, pre-Islamic trade
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