Fourteen Years of Archaeological and Heritage Research in the Iringa Region, Tanzania [0.03%]
坦桑尼亚iringa地区的十四年考古与遗产研究
J M Miller,J J Werner,K M Biittner et al.
J M Miller et al.
The Iringa Region is famous among archaeologists for the Acheulean site of Isimila, and among historians as the stronghold where Chief Mkwawa led the Hehe resistance against German colonial forces. However, our research reveals that Iringa ...
Excavations at Mlambalasi Rockshelter: a Terminal Pleistocene to Recent Iron Age Record in Southern Tanzania [0.03%]
马拉姆巴拉斯岩厦发掘：坦桑尼亚南部从晚期更新世到铁器时代的一处遗址记录
K M Biittner,E A Sawchuk,J M Miller et al.
K M Biittner et al.
The Mlambalasi rockshelter in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania has rich artifactual deposits spanning the Later Stone Age (LSA), Iron Age, and historic periods. Middle Stone Age (MSA) artifacts are also present on the slope in front o...
Land Snail Shell Beads in the Sub-Saharan Archaeological Record: When, Where, and Why? [0.03%]
东非考古记录中的陆生螺壳珠：时间、地点与原因？
Jennifer M Miller,Elizabeth A Sawchuk,Amy L R Reedman et al.
Jennifer M Miller et al.
Shell beads are well established in the archaeological record of sub-Saharan Africa and appear as early as 75,000 BP; however, most research has focused on ostrich eggshell (OES) and various marine mollusc species. Beads made from various l...
On the Origins and Dissemination of Domesticated Sorghum and Pearl Millet across Africa and into India: a View from the Butana Group of the Far Eastern Sahel [0.03%]
论高粱和珍珠小米的驯化起源及其在非洲和印度的传播——来自萨赫勒远东地区Butana人群的观点
Frank Winchell,Michael Brass,Andrea Manzo et al.
Frank Winchell et al.
Four decades have passed since Harlan and Stemler (1976) proposed the eastern Sahelian zone as the most likely center of Sorghum bicolor domestication. Recently, new data on seed impressions on Butana Group pottery, from the fourth millenni...
Alex Wilshaw
Alex Wilshaw
East Africa is home to a rich array of stone-tool traditions that span human prehistory. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the region attracted pioneer prehistorians in the early twentieth century, including L. S. B. Leakey, E. J. Wayland...
The History of African Village Chickens: an Archaeological and Molecular Perspective [0.03%]
非洲家鸡的起源和传播：考古学与分子生物学证据的观点
J M Mwacharo,G Bjørnstad,J L Han et al.
J M Mwacharo et al.
The history of the introduction and dispersal of village chickens across the African continent is a subject of intense debate and speculation among scholars. Here, we synthesize and summarise the current scientific genetic and nongenetic kn...
The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [0.03%]
麦罗埃国家的南部边疆——从杰贝尔莫亚遗址看麦罗埃国境南部
Michael Brass
Michael Brass
The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the o...