An Iron Age salt-working area of western Tanzania, not far from the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Salt, which was widely traded, was evaporated from the local brine springs. The earliest occupation is marked by Early Iron Age pottery akin to Ure we ware, dated to around the middle of the 1st millennium ad. The later Iron Age sequence commenced in the 12th or 13th century and has continued into recent times.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied