Felix A. Chami is an

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

from Tanzania. He is a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, focusing on East African coastal archaeology. Dr. Chami discovered, on the island of Mafia and Juani, artifacts that revealed

East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa: Due to the historical ...

as being integral to the Indian Ocean trade.Shubart, Tir
Tanzanian dig unearths ancient secret
BBC News: Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 17:27 GMT 18:27 UK Chami earned a first degree in sociology from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1986, a master's degree in anthropology from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1988 and a Ph.D. in archaeology from Uppsala University in 1994.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Dar es Salaam faculty Tanzanian archaeologists University of Dar es Salaam alumni Brown University alumni Uppsala University alumni {{Archaeologist-stub