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Re-evaluating Traditional Histories on the Coast of Kenya: An Archaeological Perspective

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African Historical Archaeologies

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In the end there will be two histories, theirs and ours. Ours will obviously be within a literate mode of historical thought, taking account of all the additional data we can muster to reconstruct sequential evolutionary patterns of change. It will satisfy us, while theirs continues to satisfy them. (Spear 1981a: 178)

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