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Title:The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya
Authors:Kusimba, Chapurukha M.ISNI
Kusimba, Sibel B.ISNI
Wright, David K.ISNI
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]
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