| Archaeology and Geoarchaeology of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains, Central Kenya Contributor(s): Pearl, Frederic (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841716073 ISBN-13: 9781841716077 Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd OUR PRICE: $40.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2004 Annotation: Seventy-one archaeological sites from the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains, dating from the Middle Stone Age to the present day, are analysed in this study which seeks to test a series of hypotheses about human adaptation in the Quaternary period in this part of Africa. In essence, Pearl places cultural change alongside environmental change and addresses four main questions: whether the landscape affected the distribtion of archaeological sites in the study area; the nature of land-use patterns in the Middle to Late Stone Age; the impact of the arrival of pastoralism on the environment; whether changing economic patterns could be attributed to environmental change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 967.626 |
| LCCN: 2004281136 |
| Series: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (0.63 lbs) 82 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
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| Publisher Description: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 59 Since 1996, the author has been involved with a cultural, archaeological, and geological survey of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains in Central Kenya. Results of this research are presented herein, with a primary goal of providing an environmental chronology and describing patterns of human land use through the Late Pleistocene. This was accomplished through geoarchaeological and archaeological survey. The geoarchaeological study demonstrates how local environmental conditions, particularly fluvial geomorphology, have responded to East African climatic fluctuations. This, in turn, provides a comparative basis to interpret cultural change documented by the archaeological survey. While building on research that has already been conducted in the region, these investigations provide the context within which to make archaeological interpretations meaningful. This research addresses four main questions. First, did landscape changes affect the distribution of archaeological sites in the Mukogodo Hills-Ewaso Ng'iro Plains region? Second, are there significant differences in land-use patterns between the Middle and Later Stone Age inhabitants of the region? Third, did the arrival of pastoralism contribute to erosion and degradation of the landscape? Fourth, has ecological change correlated with changes in economic patterns observed in the archaeological record? |
Contributor Bio(s): Pearl, Frederic: - Frederic Pearl |