Ivuna

Ivuna lies beside salt flats southeast of Lake Rukwa. Its salt-making settlement has a history reaching back to the early thirteenth century, and substantial deposits of pottery attest to a long-lived village. Its inhabitants combined salt production with cereal cultivation, livestock keeping and hunting. In the Rukwa basin, where the lake has no outlet to the sea, the salt deposits gave the village a resource quite distinct from the grain and animals raised beside them.