Report on the collection and analysis of pottery sherds collected from Iron Age occupation sites along the shores of Lake Malawi with attempts to assign decorative variations to either the Early or Late Iron Age as well as speculation that certain patterns may persist to this day in local wall de

An analysis of pottery recovered either from excavation or surface scatters in the mountainous region of Southern Malawi used to differentiate between Early Iron Age (pre-c1000 AD) and  Late Iron Age (post-c1000 AD) and to determine possible cultural apread into Malawi from societies to