Part of the history of human settlements on the islands along the Pangani River at Korogwe
in northeastern Tanzania has been misconstrued. Eurocentric accounts claim that the …

The governments in Africa implement various development projects to improve livelihoods.
The projects are both large and small scale. Large-scale projects include construction of …

The aim of this thesis is to identify maritime activity and patterns of spatial organisation
through archaeological survey at first millennium coastal settlements in the Zanzibar …

The last two decades have witnessed an increase of archaeological research interest in the
East African caravan trade, a topic that was traditionally exclusive to historians. Long-term …

Archaeology of connectivity has attracted researchers since the beginning of the discipline
when migration theories reigned in archaeological research. In East Africa, it started close to …

This paper presents the results of recent archaeological work conducted at the ruined site of
Kisimani Mafia, Mafia archipelago, Tanzania. The site is one of the two stone town sites on …

The inhabitants of the Tanzanian coast produced and used indigenous ceramics even as
they encountered early colonialism. Though details of indigenous pottery production are …

Tanzania's coastal region is part of the Swahili coast that stretches from Mogadishu in
Somalia to Sofala in Mozambique, a distance of 3,000 km (see figure 2.1). 1 The Tanzanian …

Many Zanjian settlements on the East African coast from around AD 600 were slowly drawn
into larger Swahili cultural networks of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries AD. Indigenous …

Natural disasters such as floods, tropical cyclone storms, tsunamis and earthquakes had
various kinds of effects on ancient societies around the world. In Eurasia and the Americas …