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} }
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.
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