Browsing by Author "Mabulla, Audax Z.P."
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Item The Archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene deposits of Lake Eyasi, Tanzania.(Journal of African Archaeology, 2007) Dominguez, Guillermo Rodriguez; Mabulla, Audax Z.P.; Diez-Martin, F.; Luque, L.; Tarrino, A.; Lopez-Sanz, J.A.; Barba, R.; Bushozi, Pastory G.M.Item Hunting and Foraging in the Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania: Past, Present and Future Prospects(African Archaeological Review, 2007) Mabulla, Audax Z.P.In this paper I document the history of hunting and foraging in the Eyasi Basin, northern Tanzania, from about 130,000 bp to contemporary times, by reviewing the available archaeological, palaeontological, historical and ethnographic data. The review reveals a complex co-existence and interactions between hunter-foragers and herders and farmers from about 3,000 bp until the present. In addition, the review exposes intricate opportunities and at the same time risks/constraints that face extant Hadzabe hunter-foragers in the 21st century. The Hadzabe are a group of about 800– 1,000 people who live in the Eyasi Basin. Traditionally, they are viewed as hunterforagers— people who acquire nearly all of their food by hunting wild animals and foraging wild plant foods and honey. Although Hadzabe have been closely surrounded by other ethnic and cultural groups with whom they have interacted, for at least the last 100 years, their existence as a cultural group in the 21st century is in doubt. Mitigation measures are required in order to enhance the existence of this important cultural group.Item Strategy for Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) in Africa: A Case Study(African Archaeological Review, 2000) Mabulla, Audax Z.P.Africa is both fortunate and unfortunate as far as Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) is concerned. Fortunate because the continent is a warehouse for the heritage resources, which document the origin and development of our humanity. In the meantime, it is very unfortunate that Africa is too poor to take care of such vast cultural treasures. In this paper, I use Tanzania as a case study to explore ways that Africa can generate revenue and public support for CHM. An effective means of accomplishing this goal is to make the products of the past attractive and accessible for cultural tourism. Only in this way does Africa’s past heritage become economically sustainable for long-term survival, productivity, and contribution to global education, research, tourism, and pride in the past accomplishments of humanity.Item Tanzania's Endangered Heritage: A Call for a Protection Program(African Archaeological Review, 1996) Mabulla, Audax Z.P.There is no doubt that heritage resource loss in Tanzania is proceeding at an alarming rate. Natural and human agencies, adverse storage infrastructures and techniques, and lack of trained conservators and curators and of a proper protection program are the major threats that endanger the heritage resources of Tanzania. As our natural and cultural environments bring irreparable damage to the resources that document our human history, we need to preserve and protect them before they vanish. A preservation and protection program for Tanzania should include public education, the establishment of heritage preservation laws, more progress in the inventory and protection of in situ heritage resources, research into preservation and conservation methods, training of staff, and improvements in the curation of collected heritage resources and records. Preservation and protection of heritage resources are collaborative exercises. The scientific and world community need to support and engage in this proposed program both technically and financially, if the preservation and protection of heritage resources in Tanzania are to succeed.