Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi

摘要: The site of Mwanganda's Village, located along a paleochannel in northern Malawi, is one only few sites that have characterized the Middle Stone Age (MSA) Malawi for decades (Clark & Haynes, ; Clark etal., Kaufulu, ). Earlier-Middle Project has re-examined using new mapping and chronometric tools order to reinterpret site's significance within context current debates surrounding human origins potential role environment played shaping behavior. data do not support previous hypothesis was an elephant butchery location (contra Instead, evidence shows successive colonization riparian corridors by MSA hunter-gatherers focused on exploiting localized resources during periods generally humid climates while other lakes desiccated across Africa. We challenge stable intermediately high lake levels African Rift Valley System (sensu Trauth ) catalyzed evolution regional interaction networks between 42 22 ka. we interpret suggest variants technology persist into late as foragers from local catchments. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.