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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, Pierre 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. |