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Subsaharan Africa is very little known in terms of maritime archaeology. Virtually all readily available published material on subsaharan African sites falls into three categories, European vessels, Arabic/Mediterranean vessels or discussions of African-built vessels as models for other areas. This is the result of the same forces which worked to obscure oriental maritime sites and a similar effort must be made to recover older, African-built vessels from south of the Sahara.
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Babits, L.E., Van Tilburg, H. (1998). Africa: Bibliography. In: Babits, L.E., Van Tilburg, H. (eds) Maritime Archaeology. The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0084-5_19
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