Editing History of Tanzania (section)

=== Later Stone Age and Pastoral Neolithic ===
Reaching back approximately 10,000 years in the [[Later Stone Age]], Tanzania is believed to have been populated by [[hunter-gatherer]] communities, probably [[Khoisan languages|Khoisan]]-speaking people. Between approximately 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, during a time period known as the [[Pastoral Neolithic]], pastoralists who relied on cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys came into Tanzania from the north.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lane|first=Paul J.|editor1-first=Peter|editor1-last=Mitchell|editor2-first=Paul J|editor2-last=Lane|date=2013-07-04|title=The Archaeology of Pastoralism and Stock-Keeping in East Africa|publisher=The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology |url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569885.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199569885-e-40 |language=en|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569885.001.0001|isbn=9780199569885}}</ref> Two archaeological cultures are known from this time period, the [[Savanna Pastoral Neolithic]] (whose peoples may have spoken a Southern Cushitic language) and the [[Elmenteitan]] (whose peoples may have spoken a Southern Nilotic language). [[Luxmanda]] is the largest and southernmost-known Pastoral Neolithic site in Tanzania.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Grillo|first1=Katherine|last2=Prendergast|first2=Mary|display-authors=etal|date=2018|title=Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania|journal=Journal of Field Archaeology|volume=43|issue=2|pages=102–120|doi=10.1080/00934690.2018.1431476|s2cid=135287460|url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01783062/file/Grillo%20et%20al%20Journal%20of%20Field%20Archaeology%202018.pdf}}</ref>