An Early Iron Age Settlement System in Southern Zambia

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Dr. Joseph Vogel was for many years Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, where he made an intensive study of the earlier part of the Iron Age of southern Zambia. The present interpretative contribution follows up his previous publications, in particular in Azania VIII and X. The past two decades of research in southern Zambia allows a detailed picture of Early Iron Age life to be drawn. As a result archaeologists working there have begun to explore beyond the description of scant pottery collections and their connections to the Iron Age peopling of the subcontinent. The author is now Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. Following introductory characterisations of locational analyses, early Iron Age culrure in the Victoria Falls region and rhe environmental setting within the Sinde-Maramba Divide portion of the region, arguments are presented for the discrimination of a discrete space/rime entity within the broader universe of local archaeological observations. An aggregate of settlements is seen to be linked into a synchronous interactive system separate from other space/rime entities in the region. The geographical distribution of this phase is mapped and contrasted with other regional Iron Age settlement systems, and a model of site selection criteria is presented.

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