Title
Wind-towers and pearl fishing: Architectural signals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arabian Gulf
Source of Publication
Antiquity
Abstract
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.
Document Type
Article
First Page
625
Last Page
635
Publication Date
1-1-2005
DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00114565
Recommended Citation
Hawker, Ronald; Hull, Daniel; and Rouhani, Omid, "Wind-towers and pearl fishing: Architectural signals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arabian Gulf" (2005). Scopus Indexed Articles. 2510.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/scopus-indexed-articles/2510
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