Mawudzu culture
The Mawudzu culture is an Iron Age culture in Malawi and is named after the site of the same name in this country. The culture dates from around AD 1200 to 1750 and is mainly defined by its pottery.
Places of this culture are mostly found on the banks of the Shire , less often in mountain areas, but over time all of southern Malawi has been populated by this culture. The places are mostly close to good water places. The discovery of Indian glass beads proves a trade with the east coast of Africa. There is evidence of the use of copper.
It is believed that this culture is related to the immigration of the Chewa- speaking population who is believed to have immigrated to Malawi around 1150. This can neither really be proven nor refuted. However, it is striking that the Mawudzu pottery is hardly related to that of the Nkope and Kapeni cultures . So it probably did not develop from this.
See also
Web links
- Lithics After Stone Age in East Africa (PDF; 4.7 MB)
literature
- Yusuf M. Juwayeyi: Iron age settlement and subsistence patterns in southern Malawi. In: Thurstan Shaw , Paul Sinclair, Bassey W. Andah, Alex Okpoko (Eds.): The Archeology of Africa. Food, metals and towns (= One World Archeology. Vol. 20). Routledge, London et al. 1993, ISBN 0-415-11585-X , pp. 391-398, here pp. 396-397.
- Gadi GY Mgomezulu: Recent Archaeological Research and Radiocarbon Dates from Eastern Africa. In: The Journal of African History. Vol. 22, No. 4, 1981, ISSN 0021-8537 , pp. 435-456, doi : 10.1017 / S002185370001985X .
- RB Owen, R. Crossley, TC Johnson, D. Tweddle, I. Kornfield, S. Davison, DH Eccles, DE Engstrom: Major Low Levels of Lake Malawi and their Implications for Speciation Rates in Cichlid Fishes. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 240, No. 1299, June 22, 1990, ISSN 0080-4649 , pp. 519-553 (Geological and Hydrological History).