Buur Heybe
| Buur Heybe | ||
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| height | 610 m | |
| location | Somalia , East Africa | |
| Coordinates | 3 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 44 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Inselberg | |
| rock | granite | |
| particularities | archaeological site | |
The Buur Heybe (other spellings: Bur yew, Heibi others) is the largest of numerous island mountains of granite in the area Doi or Dooy in the region Bay in southern Somalia and an important archaeological site. It is located northeast of the city of Buurhakaba .
The name means something like "clay sand mountain" and refers to the occurrence of clay in the area, which is used for pottery. The Eyle , traditionally hunters and gatherers, now live around the Buur Eybe as farmers and ranchers, part-time hunters and potters. Because of you, the mountain is also called Buur Eyle . Their main town is Berdaale, other villages are Muuney and Howaal Dheeri. Rain that runs off the mountain collects in artificial basins as well as in natural springs, cisterns and basins and thus forms one of the few year-round water sources in the region. The fauna and flora are also much richer than in the surrounding area, which means that Buur Heybe offers important resources.
The Italian archaeologist Paolo Graziosi discovered the rock roof of Gogoshiis Qabe with prehistoric paintings in 1935 and carried out the first professional excavation there in what is now Somalia. A continuous sequence of layers from the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age with numerous artifacts and animal remains came to light. John Desmond Clark also dealt with Buur Heybe in 1954. Further research was carried out in the 1980s as part of the Buur Ecological and Archaeological Project (BEAP) under Steven Brandt.
Skeletons or skeletal remains of 14 people were found. Nine of these have been dated to 8100-5400 Before Present based on investigations into the apatite they contain .
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- Steven A. Brandt: Early Holocene Mortuary Practices and Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in Southern Somalia , in: World Archeology , Vol. 20, No. 1, Archeology in Africa (June 1988)
- Mohamed Haji Mukhtar : Buur Heybe , in: Historical Dictionary of Somalia , New Edition, Scarecrow Press 2003, ISBN 0-8108-4344-7