User:Mbug333/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Kemondo Iron Age Sites

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I am currently in the class Archaeology of Africa where I am learning about the African cultures and the connection to the history of humans and their behavioral patterns. I find it very interesting, especially when connecting archaeological sites to human evolution, which is why I chose this article to observe how the Kemondo Iron Age Sites contribute to our knowledge of the human past. Briefly reading the information in this article, I found the sites to be very interesting in types of technology they produce.

Evaluate the article
The Kemondo Iron Age Sites are archaeological sites active around the Iron Age period in Kemondo ward,Tanzania. The site was excavated using radiocarbon dating by archaeologists in the late 1900s, in hopes of furthering human understanding of the sites' iron smelting and ritual processes.

The article's content is concise and informative, accurately describing the ritualistic and technological lifestyle of the people living in the Kemondo Iron Age Sites from as early as 300 BC to 700 AD. It was updated recently in the past year and contains a reasonable amount of verified and scholarly sources based on the size of the article. The article is neutral in tone, and it is well organized into the two topics that the article hoped to address; however, it goes much further into detail the iron technological process more than the effect of ritual medicine. Furthermore, the article is limited on images of the sites as well as findings outside of these topics at these sites, consisting of only of an expansion to other sites in Tanzania. Therefore, I would claim that this article is under-researched and needs more data.

Overall, I believe this article is informative and helpful to the reader; however, it should be expanded upon to include more available data of the Kemondo Iron Age Sites, which includes but is not limited to more images, sources, and written information of other analyses recorded at the sites.