Archaeological survey in Mbeya Region, Southern Tanzania

Abstract

In Azania XVII we included a paper by Thomas Wynn and Thomas Chadderdon on the distinctive LSA Kiwira Industry in Tukuyu District, between Rungwe Mountain and the northern tip of Lake Nyasa. The present note places that work in the context of a broader survey in that region by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Sally McBrearty is completing her thesis at Urbana, Dr Waane is with the Tanzanian Antiquities, while Dr Wynn is on faculty at the University of Colorado.

While this volume of Azania was in press, we discovered that, as a result of some unexplained communication problem, another version of this paper had appeared in Tanzania Notes and Records, 88/89 (for 1982), pp. 15–32. At this late stage and in view of various editorial amendments and reduction agreed with the authors when the note was offered to Azania and accepted in good faith, we have decided not to delete it from our proofs. We are happy to have the agreement of the editors of TNR to this. Normally, however, we would not carry an article or note already published or accepted elsewhere.

The TNR version will be valuable to a number of readers for its illustration of stone artefacts.