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Title: | The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya |
Authors: | Kusimba, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Sibel B. Wright, David K. |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Archaeology |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 243-265 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Iron Age archaeology settlement patterns Anthropology and Archaeology History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43135378 |
Abstract: | Archaeologists and historians have long believed that little interaction existed between Iron Age cities of the Kenya Coast and their rural hinterlands. Ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in Tsavo, Southeast Kenya, shows that Tsavo has been continuously inhabited at least since the early Holocene. Tsavo peoples made a living by foraging, herding, farming, and producing pottery and iron, and in the Iron Age were linked to global markets via coastal traders. They were at one point important suppliers of ivory destined for Southwest and South Asia. Excavations document forager and agropastoralist habitation sites, iron smelting and ironworking sites, fortified rockshelters, and mortuary sites. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |