Mollusc Shells from Neolithic Contexts in the Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania

MS Mwitondi, AS Mjandwa, PM Bushozi - Tanzania Journal of Science, 2021 - ajol.info
The study of the Neolithic period in the Lake Eyasi Basin was dominated by attempts to
formulate the area's chronology, mobility, settlement patterns, subsistence, and cultural …

Paleoecological insights from fossil freshwater mollusks of the Kanapoi Formation (Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya)

B Van Bocxlaer - Journal of human evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Pliocene Kanapoi Formation of the Omo-Turkana Basin consists of two
fluvial/deltaic sedimentary sequences with an intermediate lacustrine sequence that was …

Makuyuni, Tanzania

L Giemsch, C Hertler - Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa …, 2023 - Springer
Makuyuni is an important study area on the eastern side of Lake Manyara in northern
Tanzania which has yielded hominin remains, paleontological finds as well as Acheulean …

[PDF][PDF] A late Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Lake Nhlange, Zululand, and its palaeoenvironmental implications

R Cooper. JAG,* Kilburn, RN** & Kyle - South African journal of …, 1989 - journals.co.za
A Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Lake Nhlange, Zululand, and its
palaeoenvironmental implications Page 1 S.Afr.J.Oeol.,1989,92(2),73-83 73 A Late …

Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: the marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa

M Vanhaeren, L Wadley, F d'Errico - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Located in the KwaZulu-Natal, 15 km from the coast, Sibudu has yielded twenty-
three marine gastropods, nine of which are perforated. At 70.5±2.0 ka, in a Still Bay Industry …

[HTML][HTML] Kansyore fisher-hunter-gatherers abandoned the northeastern Lake Victoria shoreline during an arid period in the middle Holocene: A reconsideration of …

MB Jones, R Tibesasa - Journal of African Archaeology, 2022 - brill.com
Kansyore pottery-using groups of the northeastern Lake Victoria Basin represent one of only
a few examples of 'complex'hunter-gatherers in Africa. Archaeologists link evidence of …

Aquatic animals and their associates from the Middle Stone Age levels at Sibudu

I Plug - Southern African Humanities, 2006 - journals.co.za
The Middle Stone Age deposits at Sibudu Cave contain a range of aquatic fauna, much of it
accumulated by humans. Other accumulating agents possibly include otters, the marsh …

Conservation implications of the provenance of modern sediment on a shell-rich platform of Lake Tanganyika (Kigoma, TZ)

MJ Soreghan - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2016 - Springer
Shell-rich substrate (shell beds) in the littoral reaches of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, form a
unique substrate that host a number of endemic organisms, including sponges and shell …

Late cenozoic freshwater mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania

D Damme, A Gautier - Neogene paleontology of the Manonga Valley …, 1997 - Springer
The fossil freshwater mollusks described and analyzed in this chapter were collected by
members of the Wembere-Manonga Paleontological Expedition (WMPE) in the Manonga …

[PDF][PDF] Archaeological and ethnographic evidence for the historic consumption of fish and shellfish along the coast of East Africa in Tanzania

EB Ichumbaki - J. Indian Ocean Archaeol, 2014 - academia.edu
By using archaeological and ethnographic evidence, this paper provides an overview of
historic consumptions of fish and shellfish by local communities that lived along the coast of …