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The Prehistoric Sequence at Nakapapula Rockshelter, Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

D. W. Phillipson
D. W. Phillipson
Affiliation:
National Monuments Commission, Zambia
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Considerable attention has recently been paid to the start of the Iron Age in East and Central Africa. One of the most interesting problems concerning this period is that of the relationship of the Early Iron Age farming people to the hunter-gatherers of the Late Stone Age whom they eventually displaced. Very few archaeological sites are known, and none have yet been published, which illustrate the Late Stone Age/Iron Age transition in Central Africa, and discussions of this and related problems have so far been largely based on conjecture. Evidence concerning this important transition was recently unearthed at Nakapapula rockshelter in the Serenje District of central Zambia. Here a long and relatively homogeneous Late Stone Age sequence of Nachikufan type was seen to continue into the 2nd millennium A.D., that is, well after the first appearance of Early Iron Age pottery at this site and elsewhere in Zambia. Nakapapula has also yielded the first archaeological evidence for the date of schematic rock art in Central Africa and confirmed its contemporaneity with the Early Iron Age.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 35 , February 1970 , pp. 172 - 202
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1970

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