Pastoral Neolothic settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mag'ola Graben, Tanzania.

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dc.contributor.authorRubaka, Charles Chiramoto
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-23T13:32:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07T15:01:17Z
dc.date.available2019-07-23T13:32:40Z
dc.date.available2020-01-07T15:01:17Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionAvailable in print formen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is about Pastoral Neolithic (PN) settlement-subsistence patterns in the Mang'ola Graben. Mang'ola Graben is within the Eyasi Basin, Karatu District, Arusha Region in Tanzania. This research examines human behavioral systems involved in ecological adaptations of pre-historic societies between 7000 by and 1300 bp. Major objectives have been to identify the spatio-temporal distributions and variations of PN societies and their ecological adaptations; and to determine the age of PN cultures in the Mang'ola Graben. The hypotheses were that PN communities were either leading a sedentary way of life or they were transhumants enjoying a variety of subsistence regimes. Ecological and cultural evolutionary theories as well as comparative approaches have been employed in the study. The research reveals that PN communities in the Mang'ola Graben were transhumants, migrating between relatively fixed seasonal settlements; that is, the Lake Eyasi plains during dry seasons and to the rock shelters during the rainy seasons. They subsisted on wild and domestic resources in a pattern where wild fauna is slightly higher than domestic fauna. Such PN cultural behaviour is broadly the same as that of the Serengeti Plains, but different from that of Western Kenya and the Horn of Africa. On the Serengeti, the transhumant model relied heavily on wild game, while the peripatetic model of southwestern Kenya relied heavily on domestic stock and the transhumant model of the horn of Africa depended mostly on plant food.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRubaka, C. C. (2002). Pastoral Neolothic settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mag'ola Graben, Tanzania. Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Available at (http://41.86.178.3/internetserver3.1.2/search.aspx?formtype=advanced)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/994
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Dar es Salaamen_US
dc.subjectArchaeological surveyingen_US
dc.subjectPastoral Neolothicen_US
dc.subjectMang'ola Grabenen_US
dc.subjectArushaen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titlePastoral Neolothic settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mag'ola Graben, Tanzania.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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