Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site

Prehistoric settlement in Songwe Region

8°35′0″S 31°14′0″E / 8.58333°S 31.23333°E / -8.58333; 31.23333TypePrehistoric SettlementSite notesArchaeologistsJohn Desmond ClarkConditionEndangeredOwnershipTanzanian GovernmentManagementAntiquities Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism ^[1]

National Historic Sites of Tanzania

Official nameKalambo Falls Prehistoric SiteTypeCultural

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

^ "Antiquities Division". Retrieved 21 Jul 2022.
^ "Kalambo Prehistoric site". unesco.org. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
^ 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.