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Position Governing Body Fellow Junior Research Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Archaeology
Email sgd45@cam.ac.uk
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Scott is a Research Associate on the Entangled Project based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. His research explores the global and regional connections of southeastern Africa during the Global Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, using historical, archaeological, and ethnographic research methods, with a particular interest in sociality of trade and commercial activity and cross-cultural consumption.

Scott completed his undergraduate degree in History at Brunel University London in 2018. He first came to Cambridge to study for an MPhil in World History before continuing to a PhD in History, in both cases as a member of ��ɫ��Ƶ. His doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Firearm Adoption in the Societies of the lower Zambezi, 1600-1888', traced the varied ways firearms were utilised and recontextualised in the lower Zambezi valley of Mozambique through the early modern and modern periods.

Scott is a Research Associate within the ENTANGLED project, based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The project is focused temporally and geographically on the coastal regions of southern Africa during the Global Middle Ages (500-1500 CE), an area that represented the furthest southwestern point of the extensive Indian Ocean world. ENTANGLED employs an interdisciplinary methodology of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic analysis to explore the development of maritime economies in southern Mozambique as well as the nature and directionality of coastal-interior trade routes, and how these were situated within a global context. As a historian by training, Scott’s research within ENTANGLED is focused primarily on the analysis of early Portuguese written documentation, alongside the collection and utilisation of oral histories and traditions relating to south-central Mozambique.

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