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The '''Mumbwa Caves''' are an archeological site in Zambia. The site has yielded artifacts that date from the [[Middle Stone Age]], [[Late Stone Age]] and the [[Iron Age]]. The Mumbwa Caves are a source of stratified, in situ deposits with faunal and human remains. Mumbwa, with its interior structures, demonstrates the complexity of the behavioral abilities of the people from the Middle Stone Age. Selection of raw materials along with features such as hearths suggests a population which was modern in its behaviors used to inhabit the Mumbwa Caves. Study and excavation of the Mumbwa Caves is helping to fill in the gaps in the late Pleistocene prehistory of south central Africa. <ref>Barham, Lawrence S. . "The Mumbwa Caves Project, Zambia, 1993-94." Nyame Akume June 1995: 66-72. Print. </ref> | The '''Mumbwa Caves''' are an archeological site in Zambia. The site has yielded artifacts that date from the [[Middle Stone Age]], [[Late Stone Age]] and the [[Iron Age]]. The Mumbwa Caves are a source of stratified, in situ deposits with faunal and human remains. Mumbwa, with its interior structures, demonstrates the complexity of the behavioral abilities of the people from the Middle Stone Age. Selection of raw materials along with features such as hearths suggests a population which was modern in its behaviors used to inhabit the Mumbwa Caves. Study and excavation of the Mumbwa Caves is helping to fill in the gaps in the late Pleistocene prehistory of south central Africa. <ref>Barham, Lawrence S. . "The Mumbwa Caves Project, Zambia, 1993-94." Nyame Akume June 1995: 66-72. Print. </ref> | ||
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There are two main classes of features that can be found at the Mumbwa Caves site. Hearths and windbreaks are two features which are distinctive of the Mumbwa Middle Stone Age. The hearths found in Areas I and II, have stone borders consisting of cave dolomite blocks and material transported from local landscape, including quartz cobbles, phyllite, sandstone and cobbles of haematite. Area I contains one of the best preserved windbreaks on the Mumbwa Caves site. It is distinguished by a semi-circular arc of ash, sediment, quartz debitage and animal bone. <ref>Barham, Lawrence S. . "The Mumbwa Caves Project, Zambia, 1993-94." Nyame Akume June 1995: 66-72. Print. </ref> | There are two main classes of features that can be found at the Mumbwa Caves site. Hearths and windbreaks are two features which are distinctive of the Mumbwa Middle Stone Age. The hearths found in Areas I and II, have stone borders consisting of cave dolomite blocks and material transported from local landscape, including quartz cobbles, phyllite, sandstone and cobbles of haematite. Area I contains one of the best preserved windbreaks on the Mumbwa Caves site. It is distinguished by a semi-circular arc of ash, sediment, quartz debitage and animal bone. <ref>Barham, Lawrence S. . "The Mumbwa Caves Project, Zambia, 1993-94." Nyame Akume June 1995: 66-72. Print. </ref> | ||
== Also see== | |||
* [[Kalemba Rockshelter]] | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://cohesion.rice.edu/CentersAndInst/SAFA/emplibrary/43_ch12.pdf The Mumbwa Caves Project] | *[http://cohesion.rice.edu/CentersAndInst/SAFA/emplibrary/43_ch12.pdf The Mumbwa Caves Project] | ||
