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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi
Geoarchaeology, Volume 29, No. 2, Year 2014
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The site of Mwanganda's Village, located along a paleochannel in northern Malawi, is one of only a few sites that have characterized the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Malawi for decades (Clark & Haynes, ; Clark et al., ; Kaufulu, ). The Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project has re-examined the site using new mapping and chronometric tools in order to reinterpret the site's significance within the context of current debates surrounding human origins and the potential role the environment played in shaping human behavior. The new data do not support the previous hypothesis that the site was an elephant butchery location (contra Clark & Haynes, ; Clark et al., ; Kaufulu, ). Instead, the evidence shows successive colonization of riparian corridors by MSA hunter-gatherers focused on exploiting localized resources during periods of generally humid climates while other lakes desiccated across Africa. We challenge the hypothesis that stable and intermediately high lake levels within the African Rift Valley System (sensu Trauth et al., ) catalyzed the evolution of regional interaction networks between 42 and 22 ka. Instead, we interpret the evidence to suggest that regional variants of technology persist into the late MSA as foragers focused on exploiting resources from local catchments. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wright, David K.
South Korea, Seoul
Seoul National University
Thompson, Jessica C.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Mackay, Alex
Australia, Wollongong
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
Welling, Menno
Malawi, Zomba
African Heritage Ltd.
Forman, Steven L.
United States, Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
Price, Gilbert J.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Zhao, Jianxin
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Cohen, Andrew S.
United States, Tucson
The University of Arizona
Malijani, Oris
Malawi, Lilongwe
Wildlife
Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth
Malawi, Lilongwe
Wildlife
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Citations: 23
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/gea.21469
ISSN:
08836353
e-ISSN:
15206548
Study Locations
Malawi