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Historical Landscapes of the Sandawe Homeland, North-central Tanzania ...
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This dissertation comprises an archaeological investigation of landscape occupation, food-getting repertoires, political and economic networks, and cosmological traditions over the last 3,000 years in what is now the Sandawe homeland of north-central Tanzania. Contemporary ethno-linguistic classification has been used as a proxy for reconstructing long-term socio-political and techno-economic histories of Africa. As the only location where all African language families exist side-by-side, north-central Tanzania has been described as one of the most ethnologically complex on the continent. Based on ethnographic, oral historical, linguistic, and genetic evidence, the Sandawe homeland has been characterized as an isolated social and ecological refuge for a relict population of Khoisan-speaking foragers. Khoisan-speakers are thought to be related branches of a deep-time lineage, ethnographic observations of which have contributed to an anthropological archetype: that of the low-latitude, immediate-return, ...
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URL: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3420 https://dx.doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3420
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Ecological Infrastructures: Rethinking Foraging and Farming in the Sandawe Homeland ...
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Ecological Infrastructures: Rethinking Foraging and Farming in the Sandawe Homeland ...
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Disciplinary Déjà Vu: Interdisciplinarity and the Eastern African 'Khoisan' ...
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Disciplinary Déjà Vu: Interdisciplinarity and the Eastern African 'Khoisan' ...
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