2020-09-30 W. Alders - Long-Term Inland Settlement and Agricultural Change in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Channel: Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Date: 2020-09-30

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Long-Term Inland Settlement and Agricultural Change in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Wolfgang Alders (Graduate Student Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
This presentation describes the results of an archaeological survey conducted in summer 2019. The survey tested the archaeological landscapes around historical plantation areas in north-central Zanzibar, Tanzania. Data suggest two major phases of occupation and land use in inland Zanzibar: an early phase of settlement from AD 1100 to 1300 related to the development of stone-built towns at Shangani, (part of modern Zanzibar Stone Town,) and Tumbatu, and a later intensification of small, rural settlements from the 16th to 19th centuries AD. Small-scale settlement expansion in the later period reflects the broader economic reorganization that occurred during the 19th century in the western Indian Ocean, in relation to the commodification of land and agricultural produce for expanding global consumer markets. 
Wolfgang Alders is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley