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Radiocarbon Dates for Sub-Saharan Africa: VI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Brian M. Fagan
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The Sixth List contains many dates from Eastern and Southern Africa. An important sequence of dates from Malawi is published, indicating that the Iron Age there had begun as early as the third century A.D. The beginnings of the Zambian Early Iron Age are well established by the fourth century, while important new dates for ‘Dimple-based’ wares in Rwanda and Kenya place that pottery type within the same time span.

The Palabora dates from the Transvaal indicate that the Limpopo valley was settled by Iron Age people by the eighth century, and numerous isolated samples are recorded. The five dates from Ife in Nigeria confirm that the terracotta sculpture there was being made before European contact, while numerous samples for earlier sites are published.

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The Journal of African History , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 149 - 169
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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