Books
de Luna K, Fleisher JB. Speaking with Substance: Methods of Language and Materials in African History. New York: Springer. New York: Springer; 2019.
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The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear. New York: Springer; 2016.
. Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory: Locating Meaning in Archaeology. London: Routledge; 2015.
Journal Articles
2023
LaViolette, Adria, Jeffrey Fleisher, and Mark Horton. Assembling Islamic Practice in a Swahili Urban Landscape, 11th-16th Centuries. Journal of Social Archaeology 23(1):99-124.
Esther S. Brielle, Jeffrey Fleisher, Stephanie Wynne-Jones…Sibel Kusimba, Mary Prendergast, David Reich, Chapurukha Kusimba. Entwined African and Asian Genetic Roots of Medieval People of the Swahili Coast. Nature 615(7954).
Baužytė, Ema, Adria LaViolette, Jeffrey Fleisher, Abdurahman Juma, Mark Horton, Bertram Mapunda, Stephanie Wynne-Jones. An archaeometallurgical investigation of iron smithing in Swahili contexts and its wider implications. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences.
2022
Wood M, Dussubieux L, Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Chemical Composition and Evidence for Local Bead Manufacture. African Archaeological Review.
Quintana Morales E, Craig O, Prendergast M, Walshaw S, Cartaciano C, Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. Diet, economy, and culinary practices at the height of precolonial Swahili urbanism. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 66.
Horton M, Fleisher J, Olsen J, Wynne-Jones S. The Chronology of Kilwa Kisiwani, AD 800-1500. African Archaeological Review.
Yu, H….Orton, D. Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history. Nature Communications 13, 2399.
2021
Pawlowicz M, Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones, J. Exploring Swahili Urbanism through Survey of Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
Jervis B, Cembrzynski P, Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S, Tys D. The Archaeology of Emptiness: Understanding Urban Empty Spaces in the Medieval World. Journal of Urban Archaeology 4: 221-246.
2020
. No such thing as invisible people: toward an archaeology of slavery at the fifteenth-century Swahili site of Songo Mnara. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55(2): 439-57.
. Capturing People on the Move: Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing in the Bantu Mobility Project, Basanga, Zambia. African Archaeological Review 37(1):69-93.
2019
. Building Medieval Worlds: A Classroom Experience in Digitally Reconstructing Ancient Buildings. Journal of Medieval Worlds 1 (1) :107-116.
2018
. Developments in Rural Life on the Eastern African Coast, AD 700–1500. Journal of Field Archaeology 43 (5) :380-398.
2017
. The Mosques of Songo Mnara in their Urban Landscape. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 4 (2) :163-188.
. Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets. PloS ONE 12 (8) :e0182565.
. Geoarchaeology of Urban Space in Tropical Island Environments: Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science 77 :52-63.
2016
. The Multiple Territories of Swahili Urban Landscapes. World Archaeology 48 (3) :349–362.
2015
. Conservation, Community Archaeology, and Archaeological Mediation at Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Field Archaeology 40 (1) :110-119.
. Fifty years in the Archaeology of the Eastern African Coast: A Methodological History. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50 (4) :519-541.
. On Critical Approaches, Unintended Consequences and the Data of Everyday Life in ‘Performing Towns’. Archaeological Dialogues 22 (2) :132-136.
. When did the Swahili become Maritime?. American Anthropologist 117 (1) :100-115.
. Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science 55 :55–70.
2014
. The Complexity of Public Space at the Swahili Town of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 35 :1-22.
. Geophysical Survey in Sub‐Saharan Africa: magnetic and Electromagnetic Investigation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Archaeological Prospection 21 (4) :255-262.
Perkins J, Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S. A Hoard of Kilwa-Type Coins from Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(1):102-116.
2013
Fleisher J, LaViolette, A. The Early Swahili Trade Village of Tumbe, Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 600-950. Antiquity 87(338):1151-1168.
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. Ceramics and Society: Early Tana Tradition and the Swahili Coast (Data Paper). Internet Archaeology 35 (http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.35.7).
Fleisher J. Performance, Monumentality and the ‘Built Exterior’ on the eastern African Swahili Coast. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48(2):263-281.
2012
Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S. Finding Meaning in Ancient Swahili Spaces. African Archaeological Review 29(2/3):171-207.
Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S, Steele C, Welham K. Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology 10(2):207-220.
de Luna, K, Fleisher J, McIntosh S. Thinking across the African Past: Interdisciplinarity and Early History. African Archaeological Review 29(2/3):75-94.
Pollard E, Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S. Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at fourteenth – fifteenth century Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 7(1):43-62.
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1):19-36.
2011
Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones, S. Ceramics and the Early Swahili: Deconstructing the Early Tana Tradition. African Archaeological Review 28(4):245-278.
2010
Fleisher J. Rituals of Consumption and the Politics of Feasting on the Eastern African Coast, AD 700-1500. Journal of World Prehistory 23(4):195-217.
Fleisher J. Swahili Synoecism: Rural Settlements and Town Formation on the Central East African Coast, AD 750-1500. Journal of Field Archaeology 35(3):265-282.
Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S. Kilwa-type coins from Songo Mnara, Tanzania: New Finds and Chronological Implications. Numismatic Chronicle 170:494-506.
Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S. Authorisation and the Process of Power: The View from African Archaeology. Journal of World Prehistory 23(4):177-193.
2009
LaViolette A, Fleisher J. The Urban History of a Rural Place: Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD. International Journal of African Historical Studies 42(3):433-455.
2008
Flexner J, Fleisher J, LaViolette A. Bead Grinders and Early Swahili Household Economy: Analysis of an Assemblage from Pemba Island, Tanzania, 7th-10th Centuries AD. Journal of African Archaeology 6(2):161-181.
1999
Fleisher J. LaViolette A. Elusive wattle-and-daub: Finding the hidden majority in the archaeology of the Swahili. Azania 34:87-108.
Book Chapters
2020
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. The Islamic Archaeology of the East African Coast. In: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology, Timothy Insoll, ed. . Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2020.
2019
Fleisher J. The gathering of Swahili religious practice: Mosques-as-Assemblages at 1000 CE. In: New Materialisms Ancient Cities, Timothy Pauketat and Susan Alt, eds. . London: Routledge ; 2019. pp. 158-183.
2018
Wynne-Jones S, Horton M, Fleisher JB, Olsen J. Dating Kilwa Kisiwani: A thousand years of East African history in an urban stratigraphy. In: Urban Network Evolutions: Towards a high definition archaeology, Rubina Raja and Søren M. Sindbæk, eds. . Aarhus: Aarhus University Press ; 2018.
Fleisher JB. On the mimetic qualities of bowls on the medieval Swahili coast. In: World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean, Allyson Pupura and Prita Meier, eds. Urbana-Champaign: Krannert Art Museum and the University of Illinois ; 2018. pp. 235-248.
Fleisher JB. Town and Village. In: The Swahili World, S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette (eds). London: Routledge ; 2018. pp. 194-204.
Fleisher J. Tumbe, Kimimba, and Bandarikuu. In: The Swahili World, S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette (eds). London: Routledge ; 2018. pp. 163-168.
2017
Fleisher J. Excavating in Urban Contexts. In: Field Manual for African Archaeology/Manuel de terrain en Archéologie africaine. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa ; 2017. pp. 121-124.
2016
Fleisher J, Norman N. Archaeologies of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear. In: The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear. New York: Springer ; 2016. pp. 1-20.
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. Coins and other currencies on the Swahili coast. In: The Archaeology of Money, Colin Haselgrove and Stefan Krmnicek (eds.). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs ; 2016. pp. 115-136.
2015
Fleisher JB. Situating the Swahili House. In: Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory: Locating Meaning in Archaeology, S. Wynne-Jones and J. Fleisher (eds.). London: Routledge ; 2015. pp. 72-89.
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher JB. Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory. In: Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory: Locating Meaning in Archaeology, S. Wynne-Jones and J. Fleisher (eds.). London: Routledge ; 2015. pp. 3-18.
2014
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher J. Water management in a maritime culture: the Swahili coast of East Africa. In: A History of Water: Water and Urbanization, Series III, Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard, eds. Vol. 1. London: I.B. Tauris ; 2014. pp. 240-258.
Wynne-Jones S, Fleisher JB. Swahili urban spaces of the eastern African coast. In: Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies, Kevin Fisher and Andy Creekmore (eds.) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 2014. pp. 111-144.
2013
Fleisher J. Landscape Archaeology. In: Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press ; 2013. pp. 189-199.
2010
Fleisher JB. Housing the market: Swahili merchants and regional marketing on the East African coast, seventh to sixteenth centuries AD. In: Archaeological approaches to market exchange in ancient societies, Christopher Garraty and Barbara Stark, eds. . Boulder: University of Colorado Press ; 2010. pp. 141–160.
2007
Fleisher JB, LaViolette A. The changing power of Swahili houses, fourteenth to nineteenth centuries AD. In: The durable house: House society models in archaeology, Robin A. Beck, ed. Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University ; 2007. pp. 175–197.
2005
LaViolette A, Fleisher J. The archaeology of sub-Saharan urbanism: cities and their countrysides. In: African archaeology: A critical introduction, Ann B. Stahl, ed. Oxford: Blackwell ; 2005. pp. 327–352.
2004
Fleisher J. Behind the sultan of Kilwa’s “Rebellious Conduct”: Local perspectives on an international East African town. In: African historical archaeologies, Andrew Reid and Paul Lane, eds. New York: Springer ; 2004. pp. 91–123.
Thesis
Fleisher JB. Viewing Stonetowns from the Countryside: An Archaeological Approach to Swahili Regional Systems, AD 800-1500. 2003.