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Wind-towers and pearl fishing: architectural signals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arabian Gulf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Ronald Hawker ,
Daniel Hull  and
Omid Rouhani
Ronald Hawker
Affiliation:
Department of Art and Design, Zayed University, P.O. Box 19282, Dubai, UAE
Daniel Hull
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of York, King’s Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK (Email: danielhull@yahoo.com)
Omid Rouhani
Affiliation:
Department of Art and Design, Zayed University, P.O. Box 19282, Dubai, UAE
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Abstract

In this exercise in early modern Islamic archaeology, the authors make an intriguing link between pearl fishing and the wind-towers which provided air-conditioning to the luxury apartments of the successful merchants.

Keywords

Persian Gulfnineteenth centurypearlsmaritime trade, buildings
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 305 , September 2005 , pp. 625 - 635
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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