Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site

Kalambo Prehistoric Site
Kalambo Falls in Rukwa Region
Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site is located in Tanzania
Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site
Shown within Tanzania
LocationKalambo District,
Rukwa Region,
 Tanzania
Coordinates8°35′0″S 31°14′0″E / 8.58333°S 31.23333°E / -8.58333; 31.23333
TypePrehistoric Settlement
Site notes
ArchaeologistsJohn Desmond Clark
ConditionEndangered
OwnershipTanzanian Government
ManagementAntiquities Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism [1]
Official nameKalambo Falls Prehistoric Site
TypeCultural

The Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Sites (Eneo la kale la maporomoko ya Kalambo in Swahili) is an archaeological site in Kapele ward in Kalambo District inside Rukwa Region of Tanzania. Professor John Desmond Clark explored the site from 1956 to 1959. Excavations in the lakebeds uncovered a stone age sequence from the early stone age to the iron age, with the majority of it stratified in residential floors.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Antiquities Division". Retrieved 21 Jul 2022.
  2. ^ "Kalambo Prehistoric site". unesco.org. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  3. ^ Gabel, Creighton. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 35, no. 2/3, 2002, pp. 543–46. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097663. Accessed 11 Jun. 2022.