T Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 31014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6703-7033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Combinatorial (bio-geo-temporal) and non-combinatorial analysis of the Covid-19 dissemination that affected Georgia (the country) in 2021
Introduction To extract more information from the same data and support decision-making, we explored whether bio-geo-temporal (BGT) variables could distinguish municipalities where BGT variables differed and (if prioritized in subsequent interventions) could lead to cost-effective decision-making. This study was conducted investigating COVID-19 outbreaks reported in Georgia in 2021. Methods Using both commercial and non-commercial proprietary sof…
Comparing Later Stone Age to Iron Age Quartz Lithic Technologies in Western Kenya
Vein or “milky” quartz is one of the most common raw materials used in lithic production all over the world. It is also one of the most difficult to analyze, given its large crystal structures and propensity to produce angular shatter during reduction. Archaeological and experimental research on quartz lithic production has been critical in developing analytical strategies to address these problems. This research contributes to these debates in p…
A multi-component forager-to-herder sequence at Kapsoo Rockshelter (Chebinyiny) on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Kenya
Early archaeological investigations of the Uasin Gishu Plateau of west-central Kenya highlighted its potential importance as a geographic link between the Central Rift, the Lake Victoria Basin and the western Kenyan highlands from the Middle Stone Age to the Pastoral Neolithic and Iron Age periods. Despite this, the region has seen little focused research in recent decades. Here, we report on archaeological research at the site of Kapsoo Rockshel…
Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database
AfriArch is an archaeological and paleoenvironmental data community designed to integrate datasets related to human-environmental interactions in Holocene Africa. Here we present a dataset of bioarchaeological stable isotope (C/N/O) and radiocarbon measurements from African archaeological sites spanning the Holocene. Modern measurements, when reported together with archaeological data in original publications, are also included. The dataset consi…
Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia
The period from c. AD 900 to AD 1300 in southern Africa is characterized by transitions from small-scale Iron Age mixed economy communities to the beginnings of more intensive food production and eventually the emergence of complex polities. In Zambia, this coincides with the appearance of larger and more permanent agro-pastoralist villages that began participating in Indian Ocean trade networks. Unlike other parts of southern Africa where stone …
Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period
This paper evaluates risk-oriented frameworks for explaining environmental, social, and economic changes faced by fishing and herding communities in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period (AHP, 15–5 ka). The orbitally-forced AHP created moist conditions, high lake levels, and unusual hydrological connections across much of northern and eastern Africa. As arid conditions set in and rainfall decreased between 5.3 and 3.9 ka in …
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and southern Africa. Renewed research and re-dating efforts in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and along the Swahili Coast are transforming models for how inter-regional interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies in present-day Zambia played an important role in the trade of copper, ivory, gol…
Lithic technological organization of the 'Elmenteitan' early herders in southern Kenya
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa
The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)
"The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 135–136
The lithic assemblage from Sugenya, a Pastoral Neolithic site of the Elmenteitan tradition in southwestern Kenya
The spread of mobile pastoralism throughout eastern Africa in the mid- to late Holocene fundamentally reshaped social and economic strategies and occurred against the backdrop of major climatic and demographic change. Early stone-tool-using herders in these regions faced new and unpredictable environments. Lithic technological strategies from this ‘Pastoral Neolithic’ (PN) period (c. 5000–1400 BP) reflect the social and economic solutions to the …
The lives of stone tools
Thoughtful ethnoarchaeology has long been a strength of Africanist archaeological research and The Lives of Stone Tools advances that legacy with a theoretically engaged consideration of stone tool
Usable Pasts Forum
Lithic technological strategies of the earliest herders at Lake Turkana, northern Kenya
Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands
Cemeteries on a moving frontier
Knowledge Transmission Through the Lens of Lithic Production
This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. Focusing specifically on evaluating skill in lithic production, a case study is presented which quantifies production errors in several assemblages of obsidian blades from early pastoralist sites of the Elmenteitan culture in southern Kenya (c. 3000–1400 BP). Analysis of error frequency through the blade core reduction seq…
Picking up The Pieces
Use of particular lithic quarries by different cultural groups is a prominent feature of the Pastoral Neolithic period in southern Kenya (ca. 3200–1400 b.p.), when lifeways based on herding domesticated livestock spread through eastern Africa. Here, I present lithic attributes from the recently excavated Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry assemblage to examine the site’s role in an obsidian distribution network spanning southwestern Kenya. Evidence from…
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano
The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50)
Late Holocene forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya
Prehistoric stone tools of eastern Africa
Addressing big questions in African archaeology increasingly requires integrating datasets from many different regions, countries and time-periods. Thinking about human origins, migrations, subsist
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa
High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
Quantifying Endscraper Reduction in the Context of Obsidian Exchange Among Early Pastoralists in Southwestern Kenya
Mobile strategies are foundational components of nomadic pastoralist socio-economic organization in East Africa. Beginning around 3,000 BP, nomadic herders in southwestern Kenya had integrated the regular transport of obsidian across a 200 km landscape into these strategies. Pastoral Neolithic groups in the region relied on obsidian for the production of blade based toolkits. Viewed through an organization approach, the patterns of tool reduction…
Usable Pasts Forum
Late Holocene forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya
The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50)
Lithic technological organization of the 'Elmenteitan' early herders in southern Kenya
Lithic technological strategies of the earliest herders at Lake Turkana, northern Kenya
Knowledge Transmission Through the Lens of Lithic Production
This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. Focusing specifically on evaluating skill in lithic production, a case study is presented which quantifies production errors in several assemblages of obsidian blades from early pastoralist sites of the Elmenteitan culture in southern Kenya (c. 3000–1400 BP). Analysis of error frequency through the blade core reduction seq…
Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano
Prehistoric stone tools of eastern Africa
Addressing big questions in African archaeology increasingly requires integrating datasets from many different regions, countries and time-periods. Thinking about human origins, migrations, subsist
Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period
This paper evaluates risk-oriented frameworks for explaining environmental, social, and economic changes faced by fishing and herding communities in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period (AHP, 15–5 ka). The orbitally-forced AHP created moist conditions, high lake levels, and unusual hydrological connections across much of northern and eastern Africa. As arid conditions set in and rainfall decreased between 5.3 and 3.9 ka in …
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and southern Africa. Renewed research and re-dating efforts in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and along the Swahili Coast are transforming models for how inter-regional interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies in present-day Zambia played an important role in the trade of copper, ivory, gol…
Picking up The Pieces
Use of particular lithic quarries by different cultural groups is a prominent feature of the Pastoral Neolithic period in southern Kenya (ca. 3200–1400 b.p.), when lifeways based on herding domesticated livestock spread through eastern Africa. Here, I present lithic attributes from the recently excavated Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry assemblage to examine the site’s role in an obsidian distribution network spanning southwestern Kenya. Evidence from…
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana
The Lothagam harpoon site in north-west Kenya's Lake Turkana Basin provides a stratified Holocene sequence capturing changes in African fisher-hunter-gatherer strategies through a series of subtle and dramatic climate shifts (Figure 1). The site rose to archaeological prominence following Robbins's 1965-1966 excavations, which yielded sizeable lithic and ceramic assemblages and one of the largest collections of Early Holocene human remains from E…
The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)
"The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 135–136
The lithic assemblage from Sugenya, a Pastoral Neolithic site of the Elmenteitan tradition in southwestern Kenya
The spread of mobile pastoralism throughout eastern Africa in the mid- to late Holocene fundamentally reshaped social and economic strategies and occurred against the backdrop of major climatic and demographic change. Early stone-tool-using herders in these regions faced new and unpredictable environments. Lithic technological strategies from this ‘Pastoral Neolithic’ (PN) period (c. 5000–1400 BP) reflect the social and economic solutions to the …
Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia
The period from c. AD 900 to AD 1300 in southern Africa is characterized by transitions from small-scale Iron Age mixed economy communities to the beginnings of more intensive food production and eventually the emergence of complex polities. In Zambia, this coincides with the appearance of larger and more permanent agro-pastoralist villages that began participating in Indian Ocean trade networks. Unlike other parts of southern Africa where stone …
Quantifying Endscraper Reduction in the Context of Obsidian Exchange Among Early Pastoralists in Southwestern Kenya
Mobile strategies are foundational components of nomadic pastoralist socio-economic organization in East Africa. Beginning around 3,000 BP, nomadic herders in southwestern Kenya had integrated the regular transport of obsidian across a 200 km landscape into these strategies. Pastoral Neolithic groups in the region relied on obsidian for the production of blade based toolkits. Viewed through an organization approach, the patterns of tool reduction…
High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes
Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano
The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50)
Late Holocene forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya
New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana
The Lothagam harpoon site in north-west Kenya's Lake Turkana Basin provides a stratified Holocene sequence capturing changes in African fisher-hunter-gatherer strategies through a series of subtle and dramatic climate shifts (Figure 1). The site rose to archaeological prominence following Robbins's 1965-1966 excavations, which yielded sizeable lithic and ceramic assemblages and one of the largest collections of Early Holocene human remains from E…
Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands
Cemeteries on a moving frontier
Knowledge Transmission Through the Lens of Lithic Production
This paper examines theoretical and methodological approaches to measuring and discussing skill in the archaeological record. Focusing specifically on evaluating skill in lithic production, a case study is presented which quantifies production errors in several assemblages of obsidian blades from early pastoralist sites of the Elmenteitan culture in southern Kenya (c. 3000–1400 BP). Analysis of error frequency through the blade core reduction seq…
Picking up The Pieces
Use of particular lithic quarries by different cultural groups is a prominent feature of the Pastoral Neolithic period in southern Kenya (ca. 3200–1400 b.p.), when lifeways based on herding domesticated livestock spread through eastern Africa. Here, I present lithic attributes from the recently excavated Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry assemblage to examine the site’s role in an obsidian distribution network spanning southwestern Kenya. Evidence from…
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)
"The technological and socio-economic organization of the Elmenteitan early herders in southern Kenya (3000–1400 BP)." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 135–136
The lithic assemblage from Sugenya, a Pastoral Neolithic site of the Elmenteitan tradition in southwestern Kenya
The spread of mobile pastoralism throughout eastern Africa in the mid- to late Holocene fundamentally reshaped social and economic strategies and occurred against the backdrop of major climatic and demographic change. Early stone-tool-using herders in these regions faced new and unpredictable environments. Lithic technological strategies from this ‘Pastoral Neolithic’ (PN) period (c. 5000–1400 BP) reflect the social and economic solutions to the …
The lives of stone tools
Thoughtful ethnoarchaeology has long been a strength of Africanist archaeological research and The Lives of Stone Tools advances that legacy with a theoretically engaged consideration of stone tool
Usable Pasts Forum
Lithic technological strategies of the earliest herders at Lake Turkana, northern Kenya
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and southern Africa. Renewed research and re-dating efforts in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and along the Swahili Coast are transforming models for how inter-regional interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies in present-day Zambia played an important role in the trade of copper, ivory, gol…
Lithic technological organization of the 'Elmenteitan' early herders in southern Kenya
Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database
AfriArch is an archaeological and paleoenvironmental data community designed to integrate datasets related to human-environmental interactions in Holocene Africa. Here we present a dataset of bioarchaeological stable isotope (C/N/O) and radiocarbon measurements from African archaeological sites spanning the Holocene. Modern measurements, when reported together with archaeological data in original publications, are also included. The dataset consi…
Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia
The period from c. AD 900 to AD 1300 in southern Africa is characterized by transitions from small-scale Iron Age mixed economy communities to the beginnings of more intensive food production and eventually the emergence of complex polities. In Zambia, this coincides with the appearance of larger and more permanent agro-pastoralist villages that began participating in Indian Ocean trade networks. Unlike other parts of southern Africa where stone …
Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period
This paper evaluates risk-oriented frameworks for explaining environmental, social, and economic changes faced by fishing and herding communities in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period (AHP, 15–5 ka). The orbitally-forced AHP created moist conditions, high lake levels, and unusual hydrological connections across much of northern and eastern Africa. As arid conditions set in and rainfall decreased between 5.3 and 3.9 ka in …
A multi-component forager-to-herder sequence at Kapsoo Rockshelter (Chebinyiny) on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Kenya
Early archaeological investigations of the Uasin Gishu Plateau of west-central Kenya highlighted its potential importance as a geographic link between the Central Rift, the Lake Victoria Basin and the western Kenyan highlands from the Middle Stone Age to the Pastoral Neolithic and Iron Age periods. Despite this, the region has seen little focused research in recent decades. Here, we report on archaeological research at the site of Kapsoo Rockshel…
Geography (24 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 works) · Pastoralism (12 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (11 works) · Livestock (11 works) · Geology (8 works) · Holocene (8 works) · Forestry (7 works)