Survey of the Stone Age Archaeology of the Upper Zambezi Valley: II. Excavations at Kandanda

Summary

This is the second of a series of three articles, published in successive issues of Azania.

Excavation at Kandanda, near the southern end of the Upper Zambezi Valley, has yielded an archaeological sequence in transition from a mode three industry with fine bifacial implements to a microlithic mode five industry. A series of radiocarbon age determinations gave dates between the eighteenth and fourteenth centuries B.C., for a mode three industry, from the second century B.C. to the first century A.D. for a mode five industry with numerous non-Iron Age potsherds. The sequence is similar to that from the sites of Cholwezi and Chavuma in the northern part of the same valley (Azania X, 1975), but with a number of distinctive features.