Nik Petek
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 173933 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nik Petek |
| PRENOMES | Nik |
| SOBRENOME | Petek |
| ASSINATURA | PETEK N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4552-0125 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Review of the Turkwel Tradition
Collating all available information, literature, data, and research history on the Turkwel tradition and the material, narratives, and interpretations that have been linked to it, the paper reviews the similarities, differences, and nuances of the assemblages and sites associated with the 1st millennium CE tradition found across South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. It discusses issues and shortcomings in how we treat the distinctive grooved …
The Turkwel settlement at Oltioki in Baringo
In the last millennium of the Pastoral Neolithic in East Africa (c. 5000–1200 BP) there is a great deal of diversification of material culture, with new traditions and wares appearing in the archaeological record. One of these is Turkwel, mostly known from a single research project from the 1970s. The Turkwel are considered to have been pastoralists who relied extensively on wild animals for subsistence and are characterised by their grooved cera…
Oral history made tangible and visual
In 2020, our team organized a touring exhibition among Kenya’s Ilchamus community that set out to make their oral history tangible and visual by including photographic, archival, ethnographic, and archaeological materials. This paper discusses how the exhibition was designed and how it facilitated multivocality about the past, fostered engagement with environmental and cultural histories, and how identity was (re)asserted over the objects. In par…
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology
Research on the social dimensions of climate change is increasingly focused on people's experiences, values and relations to the environment as a means to understand how people interpret and adapt to changes. However, a particular challenge has been making seemingly temporally and geographically distant climate change more immediate and local so as to prompt behavioural change. Environmental humanists, anthropologists and historians have tried to…
Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya
The spectre of ‘overgrazing’ looms large in historical and political narratives of ecological degradation in savannah ecosystems. While pastoral exploitation is a conspicuous driver of landscape variability and modification, assumptions that such change is inevitable or necessarily negative deserve to be continuously evaluated and challenged. With reference to three case studies from Kenya – the Laikipia Plateau, the Lake Baringo basin, and the A…
Archaeological perspectives on risk and community resilience in the Baringo Lowlands
"Archaeological perspectives on risk and community resilience in the Baringo Lowlands." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), p. 138
Anthropological contributions to historical ecology
This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key ques…
Ethnogenesis and surplus food production
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Most archaeological discussions of surplus production tend to focus either on its role in the emergence and maintenance of social complexity (whether among hunter-gatherers, farming communities or incipient states) or on the enabling properties of surplus as a basis for technological advances and aesthetic elaboration. Here, we offer a rather different perspective on surplus as an init…
Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While the importance of the sea and small offshore islands to the development of urbanized and mercantile Swahili societies has long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonization—and in particular the processes by whi…
Remembering Turkana
Research on recent African history remains largely focused on the impact of colonial and post-colonial interventions on local communities. This is commonly done at the expense of local epistemologi
Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While the importance of the sea and small offshore islands to the development of urbanized and mercantile Swahili societies has long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonization—and in particular the processes by whi…
Ethnogenesis and surplus food production
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Most archaeological discussions of surplus production tend to focus either on its role in the emergence and maintenance of social complexity (whether among hunter-gatherers, farming communities or incipient states) or on the enabling properties of surplus as a basis for technological advances and aesthetic elaboration. Here, we offer a rather different perspective on surplus as an init…
Remembering Turkana
Research on recent African history remains largely focused on the impact of colonial and post-colonial interventions on local communities. This is commonly done at the expense of local epistemologi
Oral history made tangible and visual
In 2020, our team organized a touring exhibition among Kenya’s Ilchamus community that set out to make their oral history tangible and visual by including photographic, archival, ethnographic, and archaeological materials. This paper discusses how the exhibition was designed and how it facilitated multivocality about the past, fostered engagement with environmental and cultural histories, and how identity was (re)asserted over the objects. In par…
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology
Research on the social dimensions of climate change is increasingly focused on people's experiences, values and relations to the environment as a means to understand how people interpret and adapt to changes. However, a particular challenge has been making seemingly temporally and geographically distant climate change more immediate and local so as to prompt behavioural change. Environmental humanists, anthropologists and historians have tried to…
Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While the importance of the sea and small offshore islands to the development of urbanized and mercantile Swahili societies has long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonization—and in particular the processes by whi…
Anthropological contributions to historical ecology
This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key ques…
Ethnogenesis and surplus food production
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Most archaeological discussions of surplus production tend to focus either on its role in the emergence and maintenance of social complexity (whether among hunter-gatherers, farming communities or incipient states) or on the enabling properties of surplus as a basis for technological advances and aesthetic elaboration. Here, we offer a rather different perspective on surplus as an init…
Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya
The spectre of ‘overgrazing’ looms large in historical and political narratives of ecological degradation in savannah ecosystems. While pastoral exploitation is a conspicuous driver of landscape variability and modification, assumptions that such change is inevitable or necessarily negative deserve to be continuously evaluated and challenged. With reference to three case studies from Kenya – the Laikipia Plateau, the Lake Baringo basin, and the A…
Archaeological perspectives on risk and community resilience in the Baringo Lowlands
"Archaeological perspectives on risk and community resilience in the Baringo Lowlands." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), p. 138
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology
Research on the social dimensions of climate change is increasingly focused on people's experiences, values and relations to the environment as a means to understand how people interpret and adapt to changes. However, a particular challenge has been making seemingly temporally and geographically distant climate change more immediate and local so as to prompt behavioural change. Environmental humanists, anthropologists and historians have tried to…
Remembering Turkana
Research on recent African history remains largely focused on the impact of colonial and post-colonial interventions on local communities. This is commonly done at the expense of local epistemologi
Oral history made tangible and visual
In 2020, our team organized a touring exhibition among Kenya’s Ilchamus community that set out to make their oral history tangible and visual by including photographic, archival, ethnographic, and archaeological materials. This paper discusses how the exhibition was designed and how it facilitated multivocality about the past, fostered engagement with environmental and cultural histories, and how identity was (re)asserted over the objects. In par…
The Turkwel settlement at Oltioki in Baringo
In the last millennium of the Pastoral Neolithic in East Africa (c. 5000–1200 BP) there is a great deal of diversification of material culture, with new traditions and wares appearing in the archaeological record. One of these is Turkwel, mostly known from a single research project from the 1970s. The Turkwel are considered to have been pastoralists who relied extensively on wild animals for subsistence and are characterised by their grooved cera…
A Review of the Turkwel Tradition
Collating all available information, literature, data, and research history on the Turkwel tradition and the material, narratives, and interpretations that have been linked to it, the paper reviews the similarities, differences, and nuances of the assemblages and sites associated with the 1st millennium CE tradition found across South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. It discusses issues and shortcomings in how we treat the distinctive grooved …
Archaeology (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · History (5 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 obras) · Agriculture (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras)