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

• Autores: Ronald Hawker, Daniel Hull, Omid Rouhani
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 79, Nº 305, 2005, págs. 625-635
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.