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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Late Stone Age and Early Iron Age Settlement in the Interlacustrine Region: A District Case Study
Author:MacLean, M. RachelISNI
Year:1994-1995
Periodical:Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (ISSN 1945-5534)
Volume:29-30
Pages:296-302
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Uganda
East Africa
Subjects:Stone Age
Iron Age
prehistory
Anthropology and Archaeology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History, Archaeology
archaeology
Rakai District (Uganda)
history
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00672709409511685
Abstract:It has long been assumed that the people who first worked and used iron in the interlacustrine region of Africa, and who manufactured the characteristic Urewe ceramics, were also the first practitioners of agriculture in the region. There has, however, been little archaeological evidence presented in support of this claim. Similarly, it has been assumed that deforestation resulted from the introduction of an agricultural economy and an iron technology, as land was cleared for crops and trees were felled for charcoal, again without archaeological evidence. Finally, certain social developments, in particular population increase, have been proposed as the result of a change in technology from stone to metals, yet these have not been adequately tested from the archaeological record. These issues are examined in this paper using the results of an archaeological survey of Rakai District on the west side of Lake Victoria in southwestern Uganda, as well as ethnographic data obtained from interviews with an iron-smelting informant. Bibliogr.
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