Early Iron Age ceramic and ironworking tradition centered on the Lake Victoria basin (earliest dated finds in Tanzania's Kagera Region, extending into western Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DR Congo). It is the type-culture for East African Iron Age archaeology and is closely tied to the eastern Bantu-speaking dispersal.
The Urewe tradition's ironworking and pottery styles fed continuously into successor Early Iron Age cultures across East and Central Africa; the Great Lakes region it covers remained continuously inhabited by Bantu-speaking farming communities, whose descendant kingdoms (Buganda, Bunyoro, Rwanda, Burundi) arose in the same territory centuries later.
Standard survey of sub-Saharan African archaeology; covers the East African Early Iron Age and the Urewe ceramic/ironworking tradition in the context of the Bantu expansion.