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The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Dlamini, Nonhlanhla |
| author2 | Morris, Alan |
| author_browse | Dlamini, Nonhlanhla Morris, Alan |
| author_facet | Morris, Alan Dlamini, Nonhlanhla |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12758 The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo Dlamini, Nonhlanhla Morris, Alan Sealy, Judith C Cell Biology Includes bibliographical references. This research set out to shed light on the contradiction between the archaeological evidence pointing towards cultural continuity and the Luba’s rejection of ancestral relationships with the human skeletal remains found in the Upemba Depression of Central Katanga, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was done by assessing the biological variation of the human skeletal remains of the early inhabitants from the Upemba Depression in the southeast of the Katanga Province (DRC) by using metric and non-metric dental morphological traits. Dental analyses of these Iron Age people have revealed homogeneity between the sexes, time periods and sites in Central Katanga. This is in contrast with the oral history from the Luba, who believe that the Iron Age remains are of their enemies who came from the northeast. In support of the archaeology, the dental morphological results from the current research have confirmed that present-day Luba people can trace their origins in Central Katanga as far back as AD 700.The analysis of patterns of dental disease, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen stable isotopes as well as phytoliths demonstrate that the diets and behaviours varied amongst these Iron Age communities. This may have been related to differences in food preparation and hygiene. 2015-05-06T14:21:15Z 2015-05-06T14:21:15Z 2014 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12758 eng application/pdf Department of Human Biology Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Cell Biology Dlamini, Nonhlanhla The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| title_full | The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| title_fullStr | The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| title_full_unstemmed | The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| title_short | The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| title_sort | early inhabitants of the upemba depression the democratic republic of congo |
| topic | Cell Biology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12758 |
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