UETZA Project Trench 8, Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar.3D Model
Photogrammetry model recording exposure of coral rag structural remains and midden contexts in section of Trench 8 at the site of Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar, during the first season of excavations by the Urban Ecology and Transitions of the Zanzibar Archipelago Project (UETZAP), University of York.
With a first occupation phase dating to the 7th century CE, Unguja Ukuu represents one of the earliest permanent Swahili settlements on Zanzibar, as well as one of the earliest examples of urbanism on the Swahili Coast of Eastern Africa (Horton & Clark 1985; Juma 2004; Fitton & Wynne-Jones 2017; Sulas & Wynne-Jones 2018). This trench was excavated to investigate a concentration of archaeological remains in the surface of a modern road cutting, on the eastern side of the site overlooking the mangrove creek, and close to the site of a probable mosque previously identified and excavated by Abdurahman Juma (2004:81).
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