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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Pastoral neolithic sites on the Southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
Azania, Volume 48, No. 4, Year 2013
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Description
As part of a larger project examining the introduction of herding into northern Tanzania, surveys and excavations were conducted at the southern edge of the Mbulu Plateau, documenting the presence of Narosura ceramics dating to the early third millennium BP, as well as a Later Stone Age occupation dated via ostrich eggshell to the tenth millennium BP. This marks the southernmost extent of the Pastoral Neolithic in eastern Africa. The paucity of sites attributable to early herding in this area may be due to a lack of survey in landscapes likely to have been preferred by livestock owners and to extensive contemporary cultivation in those same areas. Links can be drawn between the study area and previously documented sites with Narosura materials near Lake Eyasi, and between the study area and obsidian sources in the Lake Naivasha area of the Rift Valley, making the plateau and its surroundings a potentially promising area for further research. © 2013 Taylor and Francis.
Authors & Co-Authors
Prendergast, Mary E.
United States, St. Louis
Saint Louis University
Mabulla, Audax Z.P.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
University of Dar es Salaam
Grillo, Katherine M.
Germany, Kiel
Christian-albrechts-universität zu Kiel
Broderick, Lee G.
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Seitsonen, Oula Ilari
Finland, Helsinki
Helsingin Yliopisto
Gidna, Agness Onna
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
National Museum of Tanzania
Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane P.
United States, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Statistics
Citations: 36
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/0067270X.2013.841927
ISSN:
0067270X
e-ISSN:
19455534
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Tanzania