A New Look at Culture and Trade on the Azanian Coast.

The article presents a report on an archaeological analysis of culture and trade on the Azanian Coast in Africa. Indonesians were the first one to introduce spices in this area and took their bronzework, clothing, brooches, armlets, and necklaces. The physical appearance of inhabitants of Azania has been described as "big-bodied," in the report "Periplus of the Erythrean Sea." The inhabitants have been considered to have been southern Cushites. Some archaeologists have stated that the inhabitants' material remains are affiliated with the Pastoral-Neolithic tradition of the interior Rift Valley of Kenya and northern Tanzania. While there are other archaeologists affirm farmers representing the Kwale Early Iron Working tradition living on the coast in the early first millennium A.D. established the foundations for the coastal Swahili tradition that had emerged by the end of that millennium. So, there is a controversy that Azanians could have been Cushitic-speakers or they could have trade connections with mobile groups inland who supplied ivory and other valued products.