Early Iron Age spread into northern Mozambique: Revising the data from the Moza...

• Author(s): Martinez, João Carlos de Sena ; Martins, Ana Cristina ; Castelo, Inês ; Evangelista, Bruno E.
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9791
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Arqueologia; Early Iron Age; Moçambique
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: Portuguese

Description

The Mozambique Anthropological Missions of 1946 provided the opportunity for Professor Santos Júnior to excavate two important Early Iron Age archaeological sites in Northern Mozambique: theRiane Rock-Shelter, in Nampula Province, and Malessane in the Gurué mountains of Zambezia Province.Both remained unpublished and unknown till a first reference was made in Conceição Rodrigues PhDdissertation (2004). The importance of both sites for the understanding of Early Iron Age Eastern StreamBantu migrations is here addressed in comparison with other archaeological sites either from Mozambiqueor other surrounding countries.