J E G Sutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 269807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E G Sutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E G |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutton |
| SIGNATURE | SUTTON J E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Institute in Eastern Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 675 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Aksum
Archeology and Reconstructing History in the Kenya Highlands
A preceding article examined the ethnographic, linguistic and archeological enquiries of G.W.B. Huntingford (1901-1978) and L.S.B. Leakey (1903-1972) in the Kenya highlands in the “high colonial” era of the 1920s and 1930s—the one, a young settler, researching independently in the Kalenjin region west of the Rift Valley, the other brought up on an Anglican mission station in Kikuyu country to the east and then, as an ambitious prehistorian, conce…
Denying History in Colonial Kenya
Colonial attitudes and prejudices can be readily identified by every student perusing Africanist literature of the early twentieth century. More than that, one gets to recognize different slants, notably between an administrative outlook and that of white settlers (varying according to the territory), and a further contrast with that of Protestant and Catholic missionaries, not to overlook mission-educated Africans. But facile characterizing by o…
Igbo-Ukwu and the Nile
Engaruka
African Archaeological Review
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The African Lords of the Intercontinental Gold Trade Before the Black Death
Where we are able to combine external sources of the ‘medieval’ period with local African ones – oral and linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological – we can begin to discern the place of Africa, or of parts of it, in world history. At the same time, we begin to gain chronological perceptions for regions where otherwise we are apt to fall back on synchronic notions of ‘traditional’ cultures and societies living as if in a permanent ethnographic …
The Growth of Farming Communities in Africa from the Equator Southwards
An African Commitment
Indigenous Farmer-Managed Irrigation in Sonjo, Tanzania
Despite wide interest expressed in indigenous farmer-managed small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, there are relatively few studies of such systems. This paper offers a preliminary description of that practised by the Sonjo in northern Tanzania. Sonjo irrigation involves simple canals carrying water diverted by stone and brushwood dams from spring-fed streams and rivers. Land is irrigated on floodplain and piedmont slopes, and a wide vari…
The Antecedents of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms
The main interlacustrine kingdoms have been presented, on the evidence of their royal genealogies recalling up to thirty reigns, as stretching back to a ‘Chwezi’ period some five centuries ago. This view was promoted especially in the Kitara zone, comprising Bunyoro and regions to its south and, as a close linguistic grouping, extending to Nkore, Karagwe and Buhaya. Rwanda to the south-west and Buganda to the east, though each rather distinct, sh…
Further excavations, and the Iron Age sequence of the Central Rift
(1993). Further excavations, and the Iron Age sequence of the Central Rift. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 103-125
The international factor at Igbo-Ukwu
Sonjo and Engaruka
Agricultural Terracing South of the Sahara
Towards a History of Cultivating the Fields
Hyrax Hill and the Sirikwa
The Irrigation and Manuring of the Engaruka Field System
Man on the Kafue
Journal Article Man on the Kafue: the archaeology and history of the Itezhitezhi area of Zambia Get access Man on the Kafue: the archaeology and history of the Itezhitezhi area of Zambia, Robin Derricourt, (ed.). (with forward by J. Desmond Clark; contributions by E. Maluma, A. Mubita, L. R. Peters and J. K. Rennie; and special reports by C. C. Appleton, H. de Villiers and R. G. Welbourne). Ethnographica, London, in association with the Zambia Na…
Ntusi and the ‘Dams
Irrigation and Soil-Conservation in African Agricultural History
The archaeological study of African agricultural history has concentrated more on origins and the identification of crop remains than on farming techniques and ancient fields. The latter rarely survive, and even then may be of indeterminate age and apparently atypical, such as hillside terracing or irrigation systems. The subject has been further bedevilled by these unusual instances of preserved fields being regarded as relics of ‘intensive’ cul…
West African Metals and the Ancient Mediterranean
Contact between the Mediterranean in Roman or earlier times and the Sahara and lands beyond has commonly been examined from the northern angle with rather negative results (as for instance in Mortimer Wheeler's Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers, 1954). Although West African archaeology is still at an infant stage, it is now becoming possible to examine the issue from a southern, inner African, angle. (The multi‐volume Cambridge History of Africa…
Archaeology in West Africa
This article surveys the latest archaeological research and dating results for West Africa. For the Iron Age, recent fieldwork has been spread widely: especially noteworthy is that bearing on the history of ancient Ghana and Mali. Work on the Late Stone Age appears by contrast to have been rather patchy lately, although various palaeoecological researches continue to improve our understanding of the changing environments affecting West African po…
Towards a Less Orthodox History of Hausaland
The historiography of Hausaland has laboured under a strong tradition of orthodoxy which recent secondary works have inherited from the more-or-less primary oral-cum-written sources. General cultural evidence (linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological) has been regarded as subsidiary, so that its potential for reconceptualization and for critical reevaluation of the conventional sources and orthodox interpretations has been missed. Instead, ant…
Livres/Books
Olorgesailie
The Aquatic Civilization of Middle Africa
Between the ninth and third millennia B.C. wetter conditions prevailed over most of Africa. Lakes and rivers were fuller and some of the internal basins were temporarily linked, especially in the ‘Middle African’ belt. This comprises the southern Sahara and Sahel, stretching from the Upper Niger to the Middle Nile, with a south-easterly extension into the Upper Nile basin and the East African rift valleys. This situation was exploited by people w…
The Archaeology of the Western Highlands of Kenya
Uvinza and its Salt Industry
Salt has been extracted from the brine springs in the Uvinza area for many centuries. This joint article describes excavations at some of these springs, carried out in association with the Bantu Studies Project of the Institute, and in the second part gives an account of the more recent history of Uvinza. Stratified Iron Age sites covering a long period are very few in East Africa, and the Uvinza pottery succession is important. Drs. Sutton and R…
The African aqualithic
During the early post-Pleistocene there flourished right across the middle belt of the African continent a highly distinctive way of life intimately associated with the great rivers, lakes and marshes. This belt-or arc, to be more precise, corresponding roughly with the drought zone of the early 1970s-comprises the southern Sahara and the Sahel from the Atlantic to the Nile and there bends up-river to the East African rift valleys and the equator…
Irrigation and Soil-Conservation in African Agricultural History
The archaeological study of African agricultural history has concentrated more on origins and the identification of crop remains than on farming techniques and ancient fields. The latter rarely survive, and even then may be of indeterminate age and apparently atypical, such as hillside terracing or irrigation systems. The subject has been further bedevilled by these unusual instances of preserved fields being regarded as relics of ‘intensive’ cul…
New radiocarbon dates for Eastern and Southern Africa
This article is a follow-up to that of Mr D. W. Phillipson published in this Journal in 1970, and to the six earlier lists compiled for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa by Dr B. M. Fagan. I have endeavoured to include here all radiocarbon dates for archaeological sites of the Iron Age and most of those of the end of the Stone Age in the eastern and southern part of Africa—that is from Ethiopia, the Upper Nile and the Congo Basin southward—which ha…
The Antecedents of the Interlacustrine Kingdoms
The main interlacustrine kingdoms have been presented, on the evidence of their royal genealogies recalling up to thirty reigns, as stretching back to a ‘Chwezi’ period some five centuries ago. This view was promoted especially in the Kitara zone, comprising Bunyoro and regions to its south and, as a close linguistic grouping, extending to Nkore, Karagwe and Buhaya. Rwanda to the south-west and Buganda to the east, though each rather distinct, sh…
African Archaeological Review
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The Archaeology and Early Peoples of the Highlands of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
Dr. Sutton is now a Lecturer at University College, Dar es Salaam, and was formerly a Research Student of the Institute, when he carried out extensive field-work mainly in the western highlands of Kenya. In this important article, based largely on that work, he reviews our knowledge of the Late Stone Age, Iron Age, and histories of the peoples of the highlands, Rift Valley and adjoining plains
Indigenous Farmer-Managed Irrigation in Sonjo, Tanzania
Despite wide interest expressed in indigenous farmer-managed small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, there are relatively few studies of such systems. This paper offers a preliminary description of that practised by the Sonjo in northern Tanzania. Sonjo irrigation involves simple canals carrying water diverted by stone and brushwood dams from spring-fed streams and rivers. Land is irrigated on floodplain and piedmont slopes, and a wide vari…
Hyrax Hill and the Sirikwa
The African Lords of the Intercontinental Gold Trade Before the Black Death
Where we are able to combine external sources of the ‘medieval’ period with local African ones – oral and linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological – we can begin to discern the place of Africa, or of parts of it, in world history. At the same time, we begin to gain chronological perceptions for regions where otherwise we are apt to fall back on synchronic notions of ‘traditional’ cultures and societies living as if in a permanent ethnographic …
Igbo-Ukwu and the Nile
The Irrigation and Manuring of the Engaruka Field System
Engaruka and its Waters
Engaruka, in an arid stretch of the rift valley directly below the Crater Highlands, is renowned for its extensive dry-stone ruins of both villages and field-systems. The most recent excavations were by Hamo Sassoon, who provided a description of the place and an interim account of his work in the first volume of Azania. Dr. Sutton, basing himself on a survey of the area, gives an account of the abandoned agricultural system covering some five th…
Archaeological sites in Usandawe
This article describes remains in Central Tanzania, apparently attributed to agriculturists, in a region more recently occupied by hunting-gathering peoples. The pottery is important because of its relationships to Kwale and other Early Iron Age wares
Towards a Less Orthodox History of Hausaland
The historiography of Hausaland has laboured under a strong tradition of orthodoxy which recent secondary works have inherited from the more-or-less primary oral-cum-written sources. General cultural evidence (linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological) has been regarded as subsidiary, so that its potential for reconceptualization and for critical reevaluation of the conventional sources and orthodox interpretations has been missed. Instead, ant…
Agricultural Terracing South of the Sahara
Further excavations, and the Iron Age sequence of the Central Rift
(1993). Further excavations, and the Iron Age sequence of the Central Rift. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 103-125
Towards a History of Cultivating the Fields
Sirikwa Holes, Stone Houses and Their Makers in the Western Highlands of Kenya
The international factor at Igbo-Ukwu
Ancient Civilizations” and Modern Agricultural Systems in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
In this article Dr. Sutton of the University College, Dar es Salaam considers critically supposedly ancient field systems and other remains that have been reported in the south-central part of Tanganyika, showing that most of these result from modern cultivation
Rainsborough, Northants, England
Rainsborough is 1 mile South of Charlton village, in the parish of Newbottle, S. Northants, 20 miles North of Oxford, (SP 526348). The camp lies at c . 480′ OD, and the area enclosed is c . 6·25 acres. It lies on the edge of a plateau: the approaches to it are flat on the north-east, east, south and south-west, but a gentle slope to the north, north-west and west gives it a wide view across the Cherwell valley, towards Madmarston and Tadmarton (s…
A Review of Pottery from the Kenya Highlands
Sirikwa Holes, Stone Houses and Their Makers in the Western Highlands of Kenya
The Egerton Cave on the Njoro River
In this article the authors describe the finds from the excavation of a burial cave which yielded stone bowls. It is interesting to read this in conjunction with the article by Mrs. Jean Brown elsewhere in this number
The Archaeology and Early Peoples of the Highlands of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
Dr. Sutton is now a Lecturer at University College, Dar es Salaam, and was formerly a Research Student of the Institute, when he carried out extensive field-work mainly in the western highlands of Kenya. In this important article, based largely on that work, he reviews our knowledge of the Late Stone Age, Iron Age, and histories of the peoples of the highlands, Rift Valley and adjoining plains
Habitation Sites on the Liganga-Maganga Ridge Southern Highlands of Tanzania
Rainsborough, Northants, England
Rainsborough is 1 mile South of Charlton village, in the parish of Newbottle, S. Northants, 20 miles North of Oxford, (SP 526348). The camp lies at c . 480′ OD, and the area enclosed is c . 6·25 acres. It lies on the edge of a plateau: the approaches to it are flat on the north-east, east, south and south-west, but a gentle slope to the north, north-west and west gives it a wide view across the Cherwell valley, towards Madmarston and Tadmarton (s…
Uvinza and its Salt Industry
Salt has been extracted from the brine springs in the Uvinza area for many centuries. This joint article describes excavations at some of these springs, carried out in association with the Bantu Studies Project of the Institute, and in the second part gives an account of the more recent history of Uvinza. Stratified Iron Age sites covering a long period are very few in East Africa, and the Uvinza pottery succession is important. Drs. Sutton and R…
Archaeological sites in Usandawe
This article describes remains in Central Tanzania, apparently attributed to agriculturists, in a region more recently occupied by hunting-gathering peoples. The pottery is important because of its relationships to Kwale and other Early Iron Age wares
Ancient Civilizations” and Modern Agricultural Systems in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
In this article Dr. Sutton of the University College, Dar es Salaam considers critically supposedly ancient field systems and other remains that have been reported in the south-central part of Tanganyika, showing that most of these result from modern cultivation
Hard Clay Circles in Usandawe
Dar es Salaam
New radiocarbon dates for Eastern and Southern Africa
This article is a follow-up to that of Mr D. W. Phillipson published in this Journal in 1970, and to the six earlier lists compiled for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa by Dr B. M. Fagan. I have endeavoured to include here all radiocarbon dates for archaeological sites of the Iron Age and most of those of the end of the Stone Age in the eastern and southern part of Africa—that is from Ethiopia, the Upper Nile and the Congo Basin southward—which ha…
History From Linguistics
(1972). HISTORY FROM LINGUISTICS. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 171-196
The ‘Ancient Dams’ of Tanganyika Masailand
A description is presented of the so-called ‘dams’ of the northern Tanzania highlands and their invariable association with cattle-tracks is noted. Previous views have held that these ‘dams’ were either constructed to hold water for cattle or that they are caused by natural erosion. An excavation of a ‘dam’ in the Kimba valley, Ngorongoro, failed to reveal any sign of human work. Comparable structures in this and other areas are now best consider…
Ilula
Iron Age sites with remains of burned clay walls supported by wooden posts are of frequent occurrence in central and north central Tanzania; their distribution extends southwards to Uhehe. Two such sites in the latter area, Igunga and Itunda, were briefly investigated and are here described, together with their associated finds which indicate a later Iron Age date. Occupation of Igunga appears to have continued into the nineteenth century
The Aquatic Civilization of Middle Africa
Between the ninth and third millennia B.C. wetter conditions prevailed over most of Africa. Lakes and rivers were fuller and some of the internal basins were temporarily linked, especially in the ‘Middle African’ belt. This comprises the southern Sahara and Sahel, stretching from the Upper Niger to the Middle Nile, with a south-easterly extension into the Upper Nile basin and the East African rift valleys. This situation was exploited by people w…
China and Africa in the Middle Ages
Journal Article China and Africa in the Middle Ages Get access China and Africa in the Middle Ages, by Teobaldi Filesi, translated by D. L. Morison. Frank Cass, 1972. ix+101pp. Illustrated, 1 map, bibliography. £2.50. J. E. G. SUTTON J. E. G. SUTTON School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 291, April 1974, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/…
Archaeology at Kalambo
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The Archaeology of the Western Highlands of Kenya
The African aqualithic
During the early post-Pleistocene there flourished right across the middle belt of the African continent a highly distinctive way of life intimately associated with the great rivers, lakes and marshes. This belt-or arc, to be more precise, corresponding roughly with the drought zone of the early 1970s-comprises the southern Sahara and the Sahel from the Atlantic to the Nile and there bends up-river to the East African rift valleys and the equator…
Livres/Books
Engaruka and its Waters
Engaruka, in an arid stretch of the rift valley directly below the Crater Highlands, is renowned for its extensive dry-stone ruins of both villages and field-systems. The most recent excavations were by Hamo Sassoon, who provided a description of the place and an interim account of his work in the first volume of Azania. Dr. Sutton, basing himself on a survey of the area, gives an account of the abandoned agricultural system covering some five th…
Olorgesailie
Towards a Less Orthodox History of Hausaland
The historiography of Hausaland has laboured under a strong tradition of orthodoxy which recent secondary works have inherited from the more-or-less primary oral-cum-written sources. General cultural evidence (linguistic, ethnographic and archaeological) has been regarded as subsidiary, so that its potential for reconceptualization and for critical reevaluation of the conventional sources and orthodox interpretations has been missed. Instead, ant…
Archaeology in West Africa
This article surveys the latest archaeological research and dating results for West Africa. For the Iron Age, recent fieldwork has been spread widely: especially noteworthy is that bearing on the history of ancient Ghana and Mali. Work on the Late Stone Age appears by contrast to have been rather patchy lately, although various palaeoecological researches continue to improve our understanding of the changing environments affecting West African po…
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