Survey of the Stone Age Archaeology of the Upper Zambezi Valley

I. The Northern Part of the Valley

Bibliographic Data

ID6041671
AuthorsLaurel Phillipson (corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume10
Issue1
Pages1-48
Publication date1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAzania Archaeological Research in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0067-270X • E-ISSN: 1945-5534
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00672707509511612
OpenAlexW2151813066
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

Dr. Phillipson's article is the first of a series of three to be published in successive issues of Azania. It represents an important contribution to knowledge of the later Pleistocenejearly Holocene industries of the Upper Zambezi Valley. The principal results of an archaeological survey of the northern part of the Upper Zambezi Valley are presented. These include a description of the finds from two excavated sites and several surface collections. Most of the finds are interpreted as belonging to a sequence which covers the transition from a ‘mode three’ to a ‘mode five’ technology, and which exhibits affinities to contemporary material from the Zaire Basin. This transition probably took place within the last few thousand years. Material from Kaoma,-on the eastern edge of the Upper Zambezi Basin, is typologically older and may not belong to the same cultural sequence

Archaeology · Geography · Holocene · River valley · Sequence (biology) · Structural basin · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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