NDLI: The Reconstruction of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Vegetation Dynamics in Lake Eyasi Basin, Northern Tanzania

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Author	Cassian T. Mumbi Pastory M. Bushozi Musa S. Mwitondi Veronica M. Muiruri
Abstract	Lake Eyasi Basin of northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the study of human-environment interactions and in understanding human flexibility and adaptability through technological innovations over time and space. In this study, phytoliths from ancient soils and fossil pollen proxies from radiocarbon-dated sequences from Kisimangeda on the north-eastern edge of the Lake Eyasi Basin, are used to interpret trends in climatic changes recorded since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present. We used pollen and phytolith abundances from a core that was recovered on the northern margin of saline Lake Eyasi at the depth of five metres. The application of principal component and cluster analysis, together with linear regression provides insight into dataset structure and grouping with reference to the modern comparative datasets that in turn allow us to classify the various palaeoenvironments and paleohabitats occupied by the late Later Stone Age, Pastoral Neolithic, and Iron Age inhabitants of Kisimangeda. The chronological order, pollen and phytolith records in the studied part of the basin signify palaeoenvironments analogous to the Somalia-Maasai bushland and grassland ecosystems of today.
Ending Page	370
Starting Page	352
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08561761
e-ISSN	25077961
DOI	10.4314/tjs.v48i2.11
Journal	Tanzania Journal of Science
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	48
Language	English
Publisher Date	2022-06-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	General Science Palaeoenvironments Late Pleistocene Holocene pollen phytoliths human adaptation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Decision Sciences

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