Photo Credit: Photo of Lateoli Footprints cast and display in Oldupai Museum, Oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge, Tanzania by Matthew C. Curtis (2013). Copyright © Matthew C. Curtis. Map Credit: Google Maps.
Links to General Resources
Africa.com Tanzania Museum Guide
Institute for Indian Ocean Heritage
Tanzania Country Profile page from UCLA African Studies Center
Link to Tanzania heritage laws page from the World Wide Web Library of African Archaeology
Oxford Bibliographies Archaeology of Eastern Africa page
Oxford Bibliographies Tanzania page
Stanford University Libraries Africa South of the Sahara Tanzania page
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Tanzania page
Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, and Cultural Heritage Project/Institute/Society Websites
Aga Kahn Univesity Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations - Swahili History & Archaeology
Aluka.org JSTOR World Heritage Sites Africa - David Coulson Africa Heritage Collection
Aluka.org JSTOR World Heritage Sites Africa - British Institute in Eastern Africa, Engaruka Archive
Aluka.org JSTOR World Heritage Sites Africa - Kilwa Archive
British Institute in Eastern Africa
British Museum's African Rock Art Image Project - Tanzania
Institute for Indian Ocean Heritage
Olduvai Gorge Conservation Project Conservation Lab Chat
REAL - Resilience in East African Landscapes
REAL ITN on Facebook
Rice University Songo Mnara, Tanzania Field School
Sealinks Project - University of Oxford
Sealinks Project - UCL Institute of Archaeology
The Olduvai Gorge Project
The Origins of Acheulean in East Africa page from UCL Institute of Archaeology
The Stone Age of Southern Tanzania research page from the University of Alberta
Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) Tanzania gallery page
News and Media
Eastern Africans Hunted with Poison-Tipped Arrows at least 13,000 Years Ago - Sci News
Stone Towns of the Swahili Coast feature from Archaeology magazine
Unearthing the Origins of East Africa's Lost Civilization from CNN On the Road - Tanzania webpage and video
PBS Wonders of the African World - The Swahili Coast
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Tours
Andante Travels - Tanzania and Zanzibar
Tanzania Cultural Tourism Programme (TCTP)
Links to Recently Published (2015-2016) Scholarly Journal Articles Concerning Archaeology and Material Cultural Heritage in Tanzania
2016
Archaeology and Heritage Resource Management in Siuyu, Singida Region (Tanzania). Makarius Peter Itambu & Nazarius Michael Hongoa. 2016. Journal of Geoscience and Envrionment Protection 4(6):34-45. DOI:10.4236/gep.2016.46003.
A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania. Christian A. Tyron & J. Tyler Faith. 2016. Journal of Archaeological Science. Online. In Press. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2015.0238.
Characterizing Archaeological Assemblages from Eastern Lake Natron, Tanzania: Results of Fieldwork Conducted in the Area. Fidelis T. Masao. 2015. African Archaeological Review 32(1):137-162. DOI:10.1007/s10437-014-9170-7.
Continental Island Formation and the Archaeology of Defaunation on Zanzibar, Eastern Africa. Mary E. Predndergast, Helen Rouby, Paramita Punnwong, Robert Marchant, Alison Crowther, Nikos Kourampas, Ceri Shipton, Martin Walsh, Kurt Lambeck, Nicole L. Boivin. 2016. PLoS ONE 11(2). DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0149565.
Cultural Heritage Assets: Rituals, Grinding Hollows and Other Socio-Cultural Practices in Simiyu Region, Tanzania. Charles B. Saanane. 2016. Natural Resources 7:214-238. DOI:10.4236/nr.2016.74020.
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya. Steven T. Goldstein and Christopher M. Shaffer. 2016. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8(3):1-22. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0329-9.
Geoarchaeology of urban space in tropical island envrionments: Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Federica Sulas, Jeffrey Fleisher, & Stephanie Wynne-Jones. 2016. Journal of Archaeological Science. Online. In press. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2016.06.002.
Historical Archaeology in East Africa: Past Practice and Future Directions. 2016. Peter R. Schmidt. The Journal of African History 57:183-194. DOI:10.1017/ S0021853715000791.
Managing the Balance: Ecological Pressures and Heritage Resources in Rungwe District, Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Makarius Peter Itambu. 2016. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 4:79-90. DOI:10.4236/gep.2016.43007.
New Directions for Historical Archaeology in Eastern Africa? Paul J. Lane. 2016. The Journal of African History 57(2):173 – 181. DOI:10.1017/S0021853716000049.
Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Michelle C. Langley, Mary E. Predergast, Ceri Shipton, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Alison Crowther, & Nicole Boivin. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51(2): 155-177. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2016.1173302.
Preliminary Report on Early Settlements and Archaeological Materials from Lindi Rural District, Lindi Region, Southeastern Tanzania. Charles Bernard Saanane. 2016. International Journal of Geosciences 7(5):655-668. DOI:10.4236/ijg.2016.75051.
Production and use of percussive stone tools in the Early Stone Age: Experimental approach to the lithic record of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Policarpo Sánchez Yustos, Fernando Diez-Martín, Isabel M. Díaz, Javier Duque, Cristina Fraile, & Manuel Domínguez. 2015. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2:367-383. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.03.005.
Quantifying Oldowan Stone Tool Production at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Jay S. Reti. 2016 PLoS ONE 11(1): e0147352. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0147352.
Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Ceri Shipton, Alison Crowther, Nikos Kourampas, Mary E. Prendergast, Mark Horton, Katerina Douka, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Patrick Faulkner, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Michelle C. Langley, Ruth Tibesasa, Llorenc Picornell-Gelabert, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Chris Doherty, Margaret-Ashley Veall, Abdallah K. Ali, Michael D. Petraglia, Nicole Boivin. (2016). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51(2): 197-233. DOI:10..1080./0067270X.2016.1173302.
Research Note: Zhizo Series Glass Beads at Kwa Mgogo, Inland NE Tanzania. Jonathan R. Walz & Laure Dussubieux. 2016. Journal of African Archaeology 14(1):99-101. DOI:10.3213/2191-5784-10284.
Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania. Edward Pollard, Richard Bates, Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, & Caesar Bita. 2016. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. DOI:10.1111/1095-95270.12185.
2015
A comparative analysis of bipolar and freehand experimental knapping products from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Fergus Byrne, Tomos Proffitt, Adrian Arroyo, & Ignacio de la Torre. Quaternary International. In Press. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.018.
An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji: Toward an Historical Archaeology of Resistance to German Colonization in Southern Tanzania. Nancy A. Rushohora. 2015. Archaeologies 11(2):246-271. DOI:10.1007/s11759-015-9277-8.
Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: past approaches and future directions. Ceri Z. Ashley & Katherine M. Grillo. 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):460-480. DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1102939
Characterizing the Archaeological Assemblage of Khusumay Endamarerieki, Karatu, Northern Tanzania: Results of a Pilot Survey. F.T. Masao. 2015. Nyame Akuma 83.
Competition and Ceramics on the East African Coast: Long-Term Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century History at the Swahili Port Town of Mikindani, Tanzania. Matthew C. Pawlowicz. 2015. History in Africa 42:335-355. DOI:10.1017/ hia.2015.11.
Conservation, community archaeology, and archaeological mediation at Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Stephanie Wynne-Jones& Jeffrey Fleisher. 2015. Journal of Field Archaeology 40(1):110-119. DOI:10.1179/0093469014Z.000000000109
Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey, multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th–16th-century AD Swahili settlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Jeffrey Fleisher & Federica Sulas. 2015. Journal of Archaeological Science 55:55-70. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.020.
The rock art of Kondoa District, Tanzania. Emmanuel J. Bwasirj & Benjamin W. Smith. 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):437-459. DOI:10.1080/067270X.2015.1120436.
Use of Zanzibar copal (Hymenaea verrucosa Gaertn.) as incense at Unguja Ukuu, Tanzania in the 7-8th century CE: chemical insights into trade and Indian Ocean interactions. Alison Crowther, Margaret-Ashley Veall, Nicole Boivin, Mark Horton, Anna Kotarba-Morley, Dorian Q Fuller, Thomas Fenn, Othman Haji, & Carney D. Matheson. 2015. Journal of Archaeological Science 53:374-390. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2014.10.008.
Vegetation landscape at DK locality, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. R. M. Albert, M.K. Bamford, I. Stanistreet, H. Stollhofen, C. Rivera-Rondón, & A. Rodríguez-Cintas. 2015. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426:34-45. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.022.
When Did the Swahili become Maritime? Jeffrey Fleisher, Paul Lane, Adria LaViolette, Annalisa Christie, Mark Horton, Edward Pollard, Erendira Quintana Morales, Thomas Vernet, & Stephanie Wynne-Jones. 2015. American Anthropologist 117(1):100-115.
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