• DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00114565
• Corpus ID: 14132986

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

@article{Hawker2005WindtowersAP,
  title={Wind-towers and pearl fishing: architectural signals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arabian Gulf},
  author={Ronald William Hawker and Daniel T. Hull and Omid M. Rouhani},
  journal={Antiquity},
  year={2005},
  volume={79},
  pages={625 - 635}
}

• R. Hawker, D. Hull, O. Rouhani
• Published 1 September 2005
• History
• Antiquity

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.