Unguja Ukuu

Juma, Abdurahman

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“…North of this region, the ground has not been modified by recent earthworks, and a bank at the edge of the clearance rises to sloping ground. On this higher ground, the only clearly identifiable anomalies relate to modern features such as coral pieces lining the road, waste metal, recent burning activity in rubbish pits, and agricultural ridge and furrow, presumably pre-dating the construction of the naval base, and possibly related to the nineteenth-century occupation of the site described by Juma (2004). The stratigraphy revealed by the cutting of the road leads us to believe that this lack of magnetic anomalies is not due to an absence of archaeological activity but to the masking effect of deep overlying soil deposits.…”

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“…Previous test-pit excavations at Unguja Ukuu (Horton & Clark 1985; Juma 2004) have established the presence of settlement remains stretching more than 300m inland into the peninsula, and deep archaeological sediments extending to within around 20m of the foreshore (Figure 2). These have to some extent been mapped using resistivity survey and coring (Juma 2004), although the results were somewhat inconclusive and thus were used chiefly as a guide to the depth of deposits rather than as a means of understanding site layout. The emergent picture is of a site with rich archaeological deposits indicating occupation from at least the seventh, if not sixth, century AD (Juma 1996).…”

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“…Archaeology in the archipelago has revealed a great deal about this history of settlement, including its chronology and links with overseas partners. The sites of Unguja Ukuu (Horton & Clark 1985; Juma 2004), Mkokotoni (Horton & Clark 1985) and Tumbatu (Horton & Clark 1985; Horton in press) have all been the subject of detailed archaeological excavations. Elsewhere in the archipelago, excavations have been supplemented by systematic settlement survey that has helped relate sites to a broader landscape (Fleisher 2003, 2010).…”

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“…2015). Juma (2004) identified coral-rag architecture and a mosque in the inland urban zone of Unguja Ukuu, and Horton and Clark (1985) reported a possible mosque overlooking the creek to the east. Local reports suggest that a fifteenth-century ‘Arab’ house and a mosque once stood close to the beach of Menai Bay to the west (Horton & Clark 1985), but coastal erosion has damaged the house, and recent construction has buried or destroyed the remains of the mosque (Figure 2).…”

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“…Our project, by contrast, was aimed at understanding the nature of Unguja Ukuu as a settlement. A programme of geophysical survey and limited test excavations together contribute a picture of the general layout of the site and provide a framework in which to understand previous test excavations at the site (Horton & Clark 1985; Juma 2004). In particular, this survey was focused towards understanding the interface between the site and the ocean.…”

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Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

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Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

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Spatial analysis is paramount for understanding, monitoring, and conserving ancient settlements and cultural landscapes. Advancing remote sensing and prospection techniques are expanding the methodological frame of archaeological settlement analysis by enabling remote, landscape-scale approaches to mapping and investigation. Whilst particularly effective in arid lands and areas with sparse or open ground cover, such as vegetation and buildings, these approaches remain peripheral in tropical environments because of technical and contextual challenges. In tropical Eastern Africa, for example, scales, resolution and visibility are often compromised by thick vegetation cover, inadequate access to, if not lack of, imagery resources and technologies, and the availability of comparative archaeological data for interpretation. This

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The exploitation, processing and use of softstone in northern Madagascar and its links to the Indian Ocean world, 800–1500 CE

Nitsche

2023

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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From the 9 th to the 16 th century CE, northern Madagascar was settled by the Islamised Rasikajy population who, as active participants in the Indian Ocean Trade Network, quickly started exploiting the various natural resources of the island. Among the most spectacular remains of the Rasikajy are finely decorated lathe-turned tripod vessels made from a particular dark green to gray silicate softstone called chlorite schist, that crops out in the crystalline hinterland. In the course of this project, over 30 quarries were visited, many of them previously unknown. The survey allowed a detailed look into the production line and operation of the quarries, which is very similar throughout the sites. However, local differences were still observed and suggest that while the vessel production followed a common technological tradition, it can not be considered as a standardised procedure. A unique feature of the production line is the use of an iron bar for the shaping of preforms, which has not been recorded elsewhere in the world and highlights the particularity of this Malagasy tradition.The petrographic study on a vast array of quarry samples and geological material with petrographic microscopy, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction allowed the characterisation of the material. Chlorite schist, a faulty petrographic name for a type of rock which should be called Hoesbachite or Amphibole-Talc-Chlorite Fels after modern standards, is a unique metacumulate that was metasomatised into an amphibole-and talc-rich softstone, which occurs in a single geological unit called Manambato Suite. Zircon dating revealed an emplacement age between 750-700 Ma for the quarried occurrences and recorded Pan-African metamorphism around 500 Ma ago. The metasomatic processes responsible for the formation of chlorite schist resulted in a high compositional variation that can occur on a quarry scale. Rasikajy workers were aware of this and ensured their specific material choice by testing the rocks in the quarries, resulting in a homogenous compositional array for the material used for vessel production. The detailed geological processes behind the compositional variation on a quarry scale are also crucial for other, more commonly used softstones such as steatites, and should be considered for any provenance attempt on these materials.In an attempt to refine the knowledge on the styles and particularities of the finished vessels, different stylistic groups were distinguished for the first time. In addition to the remarkable tripod vessels that were produced in the studied quarries, a second group of feet-less bowls made from talc schist was identified. This group, which was most likely produced in a second and older quarry zone south of the Bay of Antongil, is a rare find in the Malagasy archaeological record, but dominates the softstone inventory of Démbeni, an important trading port on ii Mayotte that was active in the late first millennium CE. The results from this study largely expand the history of softstone exploitation in northern Ma...

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Unguja Ukuu

Cited by 11 publications

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Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

The exploitation, processing and use of softstone in northern Madagascar and its links to the Indian Ocean world, 800–1500 CE

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