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dc.contributor.authorShipton, Cerien_UK
dc.contributor.authorCrowther, Alisonen_UK
dc.contributor.authorKourampas, Nikosen_UK
dc.contributor.authorPrendergast, Mary Een_UK
dc.contributor.authorHorton, Marken_UK
dc.contributor.authorDouka, Katerinaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorSchwenninger, Jean-Lucen_UK
dc.contributor.authorFaulkner, Patricken_UK
dc.contributor.authorQuintana-Morales, Erendira Men_UK
dc.contributor.authorLangley, Michelle Cen_UK
dc.contributor.authorTibesasa, Ruthen_UK
dc.contributor.authorPicornell-Gelabert, Llorencen_UK
dc.contributor.authorWilmsen, Edwin Nen_UK
dc.contributor.authorDoherty, Chrisen_UK
dc.contributor.authorVeall, Margaret-Ashleyen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-21T02:48:23Z-
dc.date.available2017-12-21T02:48:23Z-
dc.date.issued2016en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/26404-
dc.description.abstractThe late Pleistocene and Holocene history of eastern Africa is complex and major gaps remain in our understanding of human occupation during this period. Questions concerning the identities, geographical distributions and chronologies of foraging, herding and agricultural populations — often problematically equated with the chronological labels ‘Later Stone Age (LSA)’, ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Iron Age’ — are still unresolved. Previous studies at the site of Kuumbi Cave in the Zanzibar Archipelago of Tanzania reported late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age (MSA) and LSA, mid-Holocene Neolithic and late Holocene Iron Age occupations (Sinclair et al. 2006; Chami 2009). Kuumbi Cave considerably extends the chronology of human occupation on the eastern African coast and findings from the site have been the basis for the somewhat contentious identification of both a coastal Neolithic culture and early chicken, a domesticate that was introduced to Africa from Asia. The site therefore warrants further investigation. Here we report on a new excavation of the Kuumbi Cave sequence that has produced a suite of 20 radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates. Our results suggest that the cave’s stratigraphy is complex, reflecting taphonomic processes that present interpretive and dating challenges. Our assessment of the stratigraphic sequence demonstrates three phases of habitation, two of which reflect terminal Pleistocene occupation and are characterised by quartz microliths, bone points and the exploitation of terrestrial and marine species, and one of which reflects later reoccupation by AD 600. In this latter phase, Kuumbi Cave was inhabited by a population with a locally distinct material culture that included idiosyncratic Tana or Triangular Incised Ware ceramics and medium-sized limestone stone tools, but with a subsistence economy similar to that of the late Pleistocene, albeit with more emphasis on marine foods and smaller terrestrial mammals. Our results suggest that Kuumbi Cave may have been unoccupied for much of the Holocene, after Zanzibar became an island. Our findings also place into question earlier identifications of domesticates, Asian fauna and a mid-Holocene Neolithic culture at the site.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_UK
dc.relationShipton C, Crowther A, Kourampas N, Prendergast ME, Horton M, Douka K, Schwenninger J, Faulkner P, Quintana-Morales EM, Langley MC, Tibesasa R, Picornell-Gelabert L, Wilmsen EN, Doherty C & Veall M (2016) Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 51 (2), pp. 197-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173308en_UK
dc.rights© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_UK
dc.titleReinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupationen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173308en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleAzania: Archaeological Research in Africaen_UK
dc.citation.issn1945-5534en_UK
dc.citation.issn0067-270Xen_UK
dc.citation.volume51en_UK
dc.citation.issue2en_UK
dc.citation.spage197en_UK
dc.citation.epage233en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.citation.date13/06/2016en_UK
dc.description.notesAdditional co-authors: Abdallah K Ali, Michael D Petraglia, and Nicole Boivinen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Cambridgeen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Queenslanden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationSaint Louis University Madrid Campusen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bristolen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Sydneyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationRice Universityen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationAustralian National Universityen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Pretoriaen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of the Balearic Islandsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000378928300003en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-84975456104en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid507963en_UK
dc.date.accepted2015-11-06en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-11-06en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2017-12-20en_UK
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
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local.rioxx.authorShipton, Ceri|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorCrowther, Alison|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorKourampas, Nikos|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorPrendergast, Mary E|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHorton, Mark|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorDouka, Katerina|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorSchwenninger, Jean-Luc|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorFaulkner, Patrick|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorQuintana-Morales, Erendira M|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorLangley, Michelle C|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorTibesasa, Ruth|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorPicornell-Gelabert, Llorenc|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWilmsen, Edwin N|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorDoherty, Chris|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorVeall, Margaret-Ashley|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2017-12-20en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/|2017-12-20|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameShipton_etal_Azania_2016.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
local.rioxx.source0067-270Xen_UK
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