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Title:The Evolution of Settlement Systems in the Bay of Boeny and the Mahavavy River Valley, North-Western Madagascar
Authors:Wright, Henry T.
Vérin, PierreISNI
Ramilisonina
Burney, David
Burney, Linda P.
Matsomoto, Katsumi
Year:1996
Periodical:Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
Volume:31
Pages:37-73
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills., maps
Geographic terms:Madagascar
Indian Ocean islands
Subjects:archaeology
Anthropology and Archaeology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History, Archaeology
history
Human settlements
land use
Bay of Boeny (Madagascar)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00672709609511456
Abstract:The Boeny Project studied the area around the Bay of Boeny southwest of Majunga in northwestern Madagascar during the years 1991-1992. The basic object was to collect data about changes in the natural environment and the changing human land-use settlement patterns during the past two millennia. Having discussed the various archaeological and palaeoecological techniques used, the authors look at the cultural patterns of the Boeny area (often called Boina since the eighteenth century). The first millennium of occupation has left little if any traces, except for evidence of an increase in grassfires. There have been at least four major (but not continuous) phases in the second millennium of occupation: the Antetikala phase, characterized by fifteenth-century ceramics; the Kingany phase, late fourteenth and fifteenth-century ceramics; the Antsoheribory phase, late sixteenth to early eighteenth-century ceramics; and the Aranta phase, the most recent and attested to by European travellers' accounts. Bibliogr.
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