Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern Africa: An Outline of Current Research and Potential Future Directions

Lane, Paul

doi:10.1080/00020184.2010.499203

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“…Since 2009, archaeological and archaeometallurgical research has been undertaken as part of two European Union-funded projects-HEEAL (Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes, Principal Investigator Paul Lane) and EnvIron (Impacts of Metallurgy: Iron Production and the Environment in the Pare Mountains, Tanzania, Principal Investigator Louise Iles). This research has examined sites in North Pare in order to document in more detail the iron production industries of the area, explore the social and environmental impacts that these industries may have had and place these in a wider historical ecology framework (Lane 2010). Fieldwork undertaken between 2009 and 2014 confirmed anecdotal and historical suggestions and prior archaeological research that North Pare was a major hub of iron production, due to the frequency and concentration of archaeometallurgical remains encountered in this area.…”

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Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change

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Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change

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“…This trade in ivory from the Swahili coast intensified considerably during the nineteenth century (Beachey, 1967;Cutler, 1985;Håkansson, 2004;Lane, 2010). With increasing involvement in the long-distance ivory trade, an expansion of irrigation agriculture and centralization of Chagga-speaking polities is suggested to have occurred on Mt Kilimanjaro's southern and eastern slopes (Stahl, 1964;Håkansson, 2008), resulting in the amalgamation of previously semi-autonomous clans of diverse ethnic origins, including Maa-speaking groups (Chuhila, 2016).…”

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Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya

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This study presents a multidisciplinary perspective for understanding environmental change and emerging socio-ecological interactions across the Amboseli region of southwestern Kenya. We focus on late Holocene (<5,000 cal yr. BP) changes and continuities reconstructed from sedimentary, archeological, historical records and socio-ecological models. We utilize multi-disciplinary approaches to understand environmental-ecosystem-social interactions over the longue durée and use this to simulate different land use scenarios supporting conservation and sustainable livelihoods using a socio-ecological model. Today the semi-arid Amboseli landscape supports a large livestock and wildlife population, sustained by a wide variety of plants and extensive rangelands regulated by seasonal rainfall and human activity. Our data provide insight into how large-scale and long-term interactions of climate, people, livestock, wildlife and external connections have shaped the ecosystems across the Amboseli landscape. Environmental conditions were dry between ∼5,000 and 2,000 cal yr. BP, followed by two wet periods at ∼2,100-1,500 and 1,400-800 cal yr. BP with short dry periods; the most recent centuries were characterized by variable climate with alternative dry and wet phases with high spatial heterogeneity. Most evident in paleo and historical records is the changing woody to grass cover ratio, driven by changes in climate and fire regimes entwined with fluctuating elephant, cattle and wild ungulate populations moderated by human activity, including elephant ivory trade intensification. Archeological perspectives on the occupation of different groups (hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, and farmers) in Amboseli region and the relationships between them are discussed. An overview of the known history of humans and elephants, expanding networks of trade, and the arrival and integration of metallurgy, livestock and domesticated crops in the wider region is provided. In recent decades, increased runoff and flooding have resulted in the expansion of wetlands and a reduction of woody vegetation, compounding problems created by increased enclosure and privatization of these landscapes. However, most Githumbi et al.Long-Term Multidisciplinary Perspectives at Amboseli, Kenya of the wetlands outside of the protected area are drying up because of the intensified water extraction by the communities surrounding the National Park and on the adjacent mountains areas, who have increased in numbers, become sedentary and diversified land use around the wetlands.

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“…This research has been conducted in conjunction with a larger project investigating historical ecologies of landscape related to the nineteenth-century ivory trade in the region (Lane 2010). Ceramic analysis of the sites is not yet complete, but data available thus far provide another glimpse into the sharp differences found in local ceramic practices away from the coast.…”

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Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities

Croucher

2014

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Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern Africa: An Outline of Current Research and Potential Future Directions

Cited by 41 publications

References 79 publications

Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change

Iron Production in North Pare, Tanzania: Archaeometallurgical and Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Landscape Change

Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya

Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities

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