ABSTRACT
Intensive archaeological research of Malawi's Iron Age was begun in the mid-1960s by the late Keith Robinson. From 1968 to 1975, Robinson conducted extensive archaeological site surveys in southern Malawi and made many small-scale excavations in the area around the southern tip of Lake Malawi, along the entire length of the Malawi section of the Shire river valley and in the area east and north of the Mulanje plateau. Later, other researchers worked in the Bwanje river valley and on the Shire highlands complementing his work (Cole-King 1973a; Kurashina 1973; Juwayeyi 1981). One of Robinson's major achievements was to establish an iron age archaeological sequence for Malawi and as a result, the Iron Age of Malawi became one of the better known sequences in this part of Africa.
