Settlement changes in the Bagamoyo district of Tanzania as a consequence of villagization
Changes in the distribution, location and grouping of settlement together with the organization structure of the rural areas following the villagization programme carried out in Tanzania in 1973-77 are described and analysed. Prior to villagization
about a half of the local population lived in small, scattered habitations, and it was only in the north of the area that fairly large nucleated villages had been preserved as the main mode of settlement. Some drift of population had begun to take place
before the implementation of the villagization scheme itself, however. Just as the traditional settlement had favoured the high ground, with its fields in the low-lying areas, so the new settlement spread to the high land, while the depressions were
., the latest corresponding to the establishment of numerous Neolithic settlements in the area. The isotopic composition (O and C) of the fauna reflects highly variable hydrological conditions.