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Item An archaeological study of the Maldive Islands : inestigating the Islamic period settlements(University of East Anglia, 2019) Jaufar, Shiura; ޝިއުރާ ޖައުފަރުThis thesis presents an archaeological investigation of the remote Indian Ocean islands of the Maldives during the medieval Islamic period, through the excavation of three selected sites. The importance of the Maldives in medieval Indian Ocean trade networks, due to their geographical position at a crucial transit point and their exportation of cowry shell money (Monetaria moneta), is well known. However, these islands have received limited archaeological research, and that has focused largely on the pre-Islamic period. An archaeological study is important because the existing historical sources are on the whole relatively late and there has been a tendency to extrapolate them uncritically to earlier periods. Moreover, the Maldivian archaeological heritage faces various threats from development and environmental issues. Therefore, with the aim of documenting heritage at risk and filling some of the existing gaps in knowledge, the research is underpinned by four objectives: (1) investigating the landscape history and archaeology of the Islamic period in the Maldives; (2) creating a detailed typology of the pottery excavated; (3) examining the extent of intra-regional differences in the material culture; and, (4) shifting the focus away from the capital Male’ towards the poorly studied rural islands. The research objectives are addressed through the study of three archaeological sites dating to the Islamic period, discovered in the course of this doctoral research and located in the north, central and far central regions of the Maldives. The core dataset is the pottery recovered, and this thesis presents the first typological study of a scientifically excavated, stratigraphically contextualized and dated pottery assemblage recovered from medieval contexts in the Maldives. Other items of material culture recovered, including faunal remains and non-ceramic material culture, are also discussed. Together, these allow an exploration of the role of the Maldives and of their place in the Indian Ocean trade system during the medieval period. Indeed, both material culture and historical sources provide evidence for connections, over the longue durée, to several regions of the world, such as South Asia, China, Arabia, Persia and Europe. The thesis concludes that the Maldives were a nation with a strong maritime identity and suggests that Maldivian communities played an active and autonomous role in the Indian Ocean trade network.Item Back to ibn Battuta’s island : excavations in the Maldives, 2017(2017-12) Haour, Anne; Christie, Annalisa; Jaufar, Shiura; Vigoureux, DavidItem Cowrie : an early global commodity : an archaeological research on the Islamic period of the Maldive Islands(2017) ޝިއުރާ ޖައުފަރު; Jaufar, ShiuraItem Second season of excavation in the Maldives for the ‘Cowrie shells: an early global commodity’ project, 2017(2017) ޝިއުރާ ޖައުފަރު; Jaufar, ShiuraItem Tracking the cowrie shell : excavations in the Maldives, 2016(University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2016) Haour, Anne; Christie, Annalisa; Jaufar, ShiuraItem ކަނޑުގެ އަޑީގައި ދިވެހިންގެ ތަރިކަ(ދިވެހިބަހުގެ އެކަޑަމީ, 2012-09) ޢަބްދުލް މާނިޢު ޢަބްދުއްޞަމަދު; Abdul S'amadh, Abdul Maaniu'; ޝިއުރާ ޖައުފަރު; Jaufar, Shiura