What appears to be a continuous archaeological record at Buur Heybe (Buur Eyle) goes back 20,000 years.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/124524The Buur Ecological and Archaeological Project (BEAP) is a long-term .... The climate in the Buur Heybe region is warm and semi-arid, with a mean annual.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/25130464excavation in Somalia, the MSA/LSA site of Gogoshiis Qabe at Buur Heybe ( ... Figure 1 Map of the Horn of Africa showing archaeological sites (circles) and ...
- Hunter-gatherer reliance on inselbergs, big game, and dwarf antelope ...
https://usm.maine.edu/sites/default/files/geography-anthropology/Hunter-gatherer reliance on inseelbergs, big game, and dwarf antelope at the Rifle Range Site, Buur Hakaba, southern Somalia.pdfArchaeological research in central and southern Somalia, however, .... rock shelter at Buur Heybe, where he uncovered an archaeological sequence almost ...
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https://archiqoo.com/locations/buur_heybe.phpBuur Heybe is a small village in the southern Bay province of Somalia. The site contains a Middle and Later Stone Age archaeological sequence. Buur Heybe .
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A Danish Immigration Service report published in 2000, in a section titled “Eyle” (subsection headed “8.1 Groups and sub-groups, geographical distribution”), states: “According to Mr Fara Oumari Mohamud, a representative of the Eyle (Eile) community in Nairobi, the Eyle centuries ago had their own kingdom, ruled by King Gedi Ababo, around the hill Bur Eyle close to Bur Hakaba (Bay region). The Eyle were hunters and agro-pastoralists. They believe themselves to be of Falasha (or Jewish) origin before they were Islamised. They were treated by the main Somali clans as religious outcasts. Fara Oumari Mohamud said that before the war there were some one thousand Eyle families living scattered throughout southern Somalia up to and including the Hiran region, but the majority lived in two districts, Bulo Burte in Hiran region, and Bur Hakaba in Bay region. These remain today the principal areas where the Eyle live in Somalia. Presently, there are approximately two to three hundred Eyle families in Somalia.” (Danish Immigration Service (24 September 2000) Report on Minority Groups in Somalia, p.47) This section of the report also states: “Lewis (1994a) considers the Eile (Eyle) of Bur Eibe as a Negroid people, living in the area between the two rivers. They cultivate during the rains and hunt in the dry season (with dogs, considered dirty creatures by the 'noble' Somali). Both the Hawiye and the Digil despise them, and there seems good reason to regard them as a pre-Cushistic aboriginal population. They comprise three primary sections, one of which appears to be related to a dynasty of chiefs that ruled the Bur region at some time. Smaller Eile groups are found at Dafet, on the lower and mid-Shabelle, and among the Shidle. Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi adds that in the 1960s and 1970s the Eyle had some hunting and farming communities in the vicinity of Mount Eyle (Bur Eyle, Bur Eibe), some 60 km south of Baidoa. Their numbers have been constantly in decline since the 1960s due to assimilation with the Rahanweyn and Bantu agricultural communities or through migration to large towns such as Mogadishu where they found employment as butchers. In Mogadishu, before the civil war, the Eyle occupied a large squatter camp beside the grounds of the National University, to the consternation of the university officials who demanded their eviction. The civil war has scattered the few communities that the Eyle had. Abdullahi considers the Eyle an endangered community that would have difficulty in reconstituting its former settlements around the plains of Mount Eyle.” (ibid, p.47)
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