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Title:Early Iron Age Archaeology in Central Zambia
Author:Robertson, John H.
Year:2000
Periodical:Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (ISSN 1945-5534)
Volume:35
Pages:147-182
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills., maps
Geographic terms:Zambia
Central Africa
Subjects:Iron Age
prehistory
Anthropology and Archaeology
History and Exploration
History, Archaeology
archaeology
history
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00672700009511600
Abstract:This paper describes the results of excavations carried out from 1977 to 1979 at four Early Iron Age sites - M'teteshi (dated c. AD 100), Chalaka (c. AD 400), Mondake (c. AD 600) and Fibobe (c. AD 800) in the Mulungushi drainage basin, Central Province, Zambia. One of the major excavation goals was to test whether the four major attributes that define the Early Iron Age (pottery, iron slag, daga representing burnt wattle-and-daub structures, and domesticated plants) co-occurred. All four of these attributes were found. Based on an analysis of the pottery found, paying attention to tool marks, motifs, and decorations, a model is developed to explain the presence of pottery in Stone Age contexts. Overall, the Mulungushi sequence reveals at M'teteshi a society mainly dependent on hunting and gathering with a little domestication, and at Fibobe a society mainly dependent on domestication with a little hunting and gathering. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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