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Title:The First Millennium AD on the East Coast: A New Look at the Cultural Sequence and Interactions
Authors:Chami, Felix A.ISNI
Haaland, RandiISNI
Abungu, George H.O.
Muturo, Henry W.ISNI
Schmidt, P.R.ISNI
Year:1994
Periodical:Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (ISSN 1945-5534)
Volume:29-30
Pages:227-237
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Kenya
Tanzania
East Africa
Subjects:Iron Age
prehistory
History and Exploration
Anthropology and Archaeology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History, Archaeology
history
archaeology
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00672709409511678
Abstract:These contributions examine the African east coast and its hinterland (present-day Tanzania and Kenya) in the first millennium AD and the beginning of the second millennium. Felix A. Chami looks at settlement on the Tanzanian coast between the 4th and 8th centuries AD; Randi Haaland discusses archaeological finds from the Early Iron Age site of Dakawa, about 200 km inland from Dar es Salaam, and their cultural and historical implications; George H.O. Abungu examines the development of agricultural communities on the east African northerly coastal belt, roughly falling within the boundaries of modern Kenya, and its hinterland in the first millennium AD, particularly the connections between the hinterland and the early Swahili settlements on the seashore and islands; Henry W. Mutoro presents archaeological evidence for farming communities relatively early in the Iron Age in the hinterland of the Kenyan coast, particularly that part lying south of the Tana river, a region littered with forested shrine settlements of the Mijikenda people ('makaya'); P.R. Schmidt looks at the presence of ceramics (triangular patterned ware) in Tanzania, pointing to the presence of settled communities in the area in the first millennium AD. Bibliogr.
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