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Vegetation and Change: Eastern and Southern Africa and Conclusion

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Thomas (1943) pointed out there had been a tendency to assume that because an area was not inhabited at the end of the nineteenth century when Europeans first began to make known the hinterland of East Africa, it had never been inhabited; but it was obvious there had been vast fluctuations in populations in many parts due to wars, disease, famine, and migration. Man was certainly an important part of the biome in Africa, there was a diversity of Stone Age cultures in East Africa with a density of settlement far exceeding that of corresponding cultures in temperate countries such as Britain. Human settlement extending over thousands of years was bound to produce great effects upon vegetation and soil.

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Spinage, C.A. (2012). Vegetation and Change: Eastern and Southern Africa and Conclusion. In: African Ecology. Springer Geography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22872-8_9

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