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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Late Stone Age and Early Iron Age Settlement in the Interlacustrine Region: A District Case Study |
Author: | MacLean, M. Rachel |
Year: | 1994-1995 |
Periodical: | Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (ISSN 1945-5534) |
Volume: | 29-30 |
Pages: | 296-302 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Uganda East Africa |
Subjects: | Stone Age Iron Age prehistory Anthropology and Archaeology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History, Archaeology archaeology Rakai District (Uganda) history |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00672709409511685 |
Abstract: | It has long been assumed that the people who first worked and used iron in the interlacustrine region of Africa, and who manufactured the characteristic Urewe ceramics, were also the first practitioners of agriculture in the region. There has, however, been little archaeological evidence presented in support of this claim. Similarly, it has been assumed that deforestation resulted from the introduction of an agricultural economy and an iron technology, as land was cleared for crops and trees were felled for charcoal, again without archaeological evidence. Finally, certain social developments, in particular population increase, have been proposed as the result of a change in technology from stone to metals, yet these have not been adequately tested from the archaeological record. These issues are examined in this paper using the results of an archaeological survey of Rakai District on the west side of Lake Victoria in southwestern Uganda, as well as ethnographic data obtained from interviews with an iron-smelting informant. Bibliogr. |