Mumba-Höhle revisited
The relevance of a forgotten excavation to some current issues in east African prehistory
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 4834136 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael J Mehlman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1979 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 80-94 |
| Data de publicação | 1979-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1979.9979751 |
| OpenAlex | W2065800834 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 54 |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
Large scale archaeological field work was undertaken in the Lake Eyasi basin of northern Tanzania during the 1930s under the direction of Ludwig and Margit Kohl‐Larsen. Their excavations at Mumba Rock Shelter and the results of subsequent analyses of fauna, lithics, soils, burials and pottery are considered in some detail. More than 9 m. of deposit have provided artefacts ranging in type from Middle Stone Age to Iron Age. The Mumba Shelter is of particular interest because its upper sediments document a high stand of Lake Eyasi in end‐Pleistocene/early‐Holocene times, and midden deposits both above and below the lacustrine interlude are dominated by snail shells (Achatina sp.). A lithic industry apparently transitional between Middle and Late Stone Age industries is associated with the inception of the escargotière deposits, and a date for these phenomena indicates an age of c. 31,000 B.P. The excavation of witness sections at Mumba in 1977 has provided organic debris for radiometric dates and has served to clarify the Late Stone Age/Iron Age sequence of ceramic wares
Archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Iron Age · Midden · Pottery · Prehistory · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology · Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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A Middle Stone Age Worked Bone Industry from Katanda, Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire
A New Framework for the Study of Early Pastoral Communities in East Africa
Prospect Farm and the Middle and Later Stone Age Occupation of Mt. Eburru (Central Rift, Kenya) in an East African Context
Projectile Technologies of the African MSA
The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa
The Obsidian Evidence for the Scale of Social Life during the Palaeolithic
Eastern Equatorial Forest Variant of Acheulean and Subsequent Stone Age Industries
Testing the Integrity of the Middle and Later Stone Age Cultural Taxonomic Division in Eastern Africa
The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya
The origin of modern anatomy
Are land snail a signature for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
New data from old collections
New Dates for Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic Ceramics in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania
Bored Stones–Star Stones–Ancestral Stones
The last 200,000 years (or thereabouts) in Eastern Africa
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors
Land Snail Shell Beads in the Sub-Saharan Archaeological Record
Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast
Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions
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Middle and Later Stone Age lithic technology and land use in East African savannas
Characterizing Archaeological Assemblages from Eastern Lake Natron, Tanzania
Provenience, age and associations of archaic Homo sapiens crania from Lake Eyasi, Tanzania
Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter
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New excavations at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania
The Middle and Later Stone Age in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania
Neolithic Pottery Traditions from the Islands, the Coast and the Interior of East Africa
Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions
Archaeology in Eastern Africa
Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania
Hominid molars from a middle stone age level at the Mumba Rock Shelter, Tanzania
The Emergence of Habitual Ochre Use in Africa and its Significance for The Development of Ritual Behavior During The Middle Stone Age
The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and the beginnings of regional identity
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Pastoral Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in the Mang'ola Graben, Tanzania
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Shell Middens on the Shores of Lake Victoria
The Kiwira Industry and the Later Stone Age of the Nyakyusa Basin
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Early Iron Age and Kansyore Pottery
Ancient and Modern Ceramic Traditions in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya
Gogo Falls
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Raw material use and behavioral modernity
Terminal Pleistocene Later Stone Age Human Remains from the Mlambalasi Rock Shelter, Iringa Region, Southern Tanzania
Radiocarbon Dating of East African Lake Levels
Human skeletal remains from Mumba Rock Shelter, Northern Tanzania
Seronera
Excavations at Narosura, a Stone Bowl Site in the Southern Kenya Highlands
Archaeological sites in Usandawe
Early Iron Age Pottery Types from East Africa
An Archaeological Survey of Mwanza Region, Tanzania
Excavations at Nasera Rock, Tanzania
The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa
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Africa in the Iron Age
| Obras citantes distintas | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,17 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1980 - 2026 (47) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 54 |