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Title: | Site Reconnaissance in the Kipsing and Tol River Watersheds of Central Kenya: Implications for Middle and Later Stone Age Land-Use Patterns |
Authors: | Dickson, D. Bruce Pearl, Frederic B. Gang, G.Y. Kahinju, Samuel Wandibba, Simiyu |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 153-191 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | archaeology prehistory Anthropology and Archaeology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/B:AARR.0000045828.80183.ea |
Abstract: | The seasons (1996 and 1999) of archaeological site reconnaissance and geo-archaeological fieldwork in the Kipsing and Tol river valleys of Central Kenya have resulted in the location of 58 surface sites and 13 spot finds, and the excavation and dating of 11 alluvial stratigraphic profiles. These data are incorporated with previous Stone Age tool technologies and land-use strategies during the Late Pleistocene period there. Specifically, the nature of the lithic inventories and observed distribution of archaeological sites suggests that people in the Middel Stone Age employed a 'patch choice' resource and land-use strategy while those in the subsequent Later Stone Age period utilized a 'logistical' strategy. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |