Urewe

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The Urewe culture developed and spread in and around the the Lake Victoria region of Africa during the African Iron Age. The culture's earliest dated artifacts are located in the Kagera Region of Tanzania, and it extended as far west as the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as far east as the Nyanza and Western provinces of Kenya, and north into Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Sites from the Urewe culture date from the Early Iron Age, from the early 3rd to the 6th century AD.

[edit] Inhabitants

The inhabitants were likely cattle herders and millet and sorghum farmers. Their pottery incorporated such distinctive features as dimples and concentric lines.