Paul Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 99136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9936-1310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 738 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
High resolution multi-proxy analyses document Mid to Late-Holocene environmental change in arid Marsabit County, northern Kenya, East Africa
Pastoralism was first established in East Africa in the arid lowlands adjacent to Lake Turkana, northern Kenya, ~4800 years ago. Currently, there are limited palaeoecological records documenting the environmental conditions at the time of this transition, especially for areas east of Lake Turkana. To address this knowledge gap, sedimentary cores were recovered from the Chalbi Basin, Marsabit County, Kenya. These document a detailed environmental …
Shoreline dynamics and cultural heritage sites in Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal: Integrating remote sensing and archaeological knowledge
Coastal areas in Africa are vital for settlement, livelihoods, and socio–economic development, and host diverse heritage sites from the early Stone Age to the present. However, these sites face growing threats from development and climate change. The absence of regional sea level models and digitized archaeological records hampers effective threat mapping and mitigation. A new digital dataset documents the distribution and characteristics of arch…
Climates of Change in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: From Scientific Data to Applied Knowledge
This paper outlines the implementation and core results of a combined archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study of the histories of well construction and water management among Boran, Gabra, and Rendille pastoralists in arid and semi-arid areas of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. Co-developed with representatives from different local communities from the outset, this project sought to document the spatial distribution of different t…
Institutionalizing a “developer pays” Principle for Commercial Archaeology as Part of Changing China-Africa Economic Relations
Since the turn of the millennium, China’s economic presence in Africa has grown substantially through trade, overseas development finance, and “overseas foreign direct investment” (OFDI) through the provision of loans to African governments, many of which have been used to support the construction of new infrastructure, ranging from roads and railways to new airports and port facilities. In 2003, total annual OFDI from China to Africa was US$75 m…
Multiple paleofire proxy metrics from tropical lake sediment and soil in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Black carbon is a paleofire proxy that has been measured from glacial ice, snow, soils and lake sediments, though relatively few comparisons have been made with other fire indicators in sedimentary geoarchives. Microscopic charcoal, quantified from palynological microscope slides and macroscopic charcoal, quantified from wet-sieved deposits, are the most commonly applied methods for paleofire interpretation of Quaternary sediments. This research …
Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience
Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three challenges comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during research projects into successful knowle…
Developing Heritage Preservation on Ilha de Moçambique Using a Historic Urban Landscape Approach
In 2011, a new approach was introduced into the management of heritage on Ilha de Moçambique by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Known as the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, this seeks to expand current understanding of the island’s historic urban heritage, recognising that ‘heritage’ is not limited solely to monuments or the built environment. Importantly, HUL incorporates urban sustainable development within the scope of heritage pres…
Archaeologies of crime and punishment: An Introduction
Archaeological science, globalisation, and local agency: Gold in Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe (CE1000-1600) is world famous for outstanding cultural innovations and localised and globalised entanglement with trans-Africa and trans-Indian Ocean exchange. New excavations yielded fragments of over a hundred gold processing vessels comprising reused pottery and purpose-made crucibles from stratified contexts in the Eastern Ridge Ruins and adjacent areas. Selected samples were studied using archaeological, microscopic, and compo…
Material assemblages and percolating pasts in Zigua households, north-eastern Tanzania
The material culture and dwellings of the Zigua villages of Kwa Fungo and Kwengoma, in north-eastern Tanzania, bear the traces of complex social and historical dynamics. In this paper, we analyse household inventories and ethnographic interview data originally collected in 1991 by a team from the University of Dar es Salaam and the National Museum, Tanzania. We rely on oral histories as well as on Zigua epistemologies and ideas of percolating pas…
Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the …
The Trade, Use, and Circulation of Elephant Ivory in Sub-Saharan Africa over the Longue Durée
Humans have utilized and exchanged ivory from different species of elephant living on the African continent for millennia, with ivory from both forest and savannah species being exploited. Starting around 4600 bp, elephant ivory sourced on the African continent also began to be exported to other parts of the world. The ways of working ivory, the uses to which it has been put, and its symbolic and representational meanings have all varied accordin…
Late Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic: Ecosystem interaction on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
East African ecosystems have been shaped by long-term socio-ecological–environmental interactions. Although much previous work on human–environment interrelationships have emphasised the negative impacts of human interventions, a growing body of work shows that there have also often been strong beneficial connections between people and ecosystems, especially in savanna environments. However, limited information and understanding of past interacti…
Slavery in Africa c. 500–1500 CE: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
The study of pre-modern (i.e. pre-sixteenth century) systems of enslavement and slave trading in sub-Saharan Africa have relied heavily on textual, especially Arabic, sources. By contrast, there have been few archaeological studies of these phenomena, although reference is often made to the Trans-Saharan and Red Sea/Indian Ocean slave trades in archaeological studies of early state formation and globalisation on the continent. This chapter provid…
Recent Approaches to the Archaeological Investigation of Slavery in Africa
For purposes altogether unscientific”
As citizens and human beings, archaeologists understandably desire that their work and expertise should have value as a public good adding to, rather than detracting from, individual and collective qualities of life, social jus tice and wellbeing Different generations of archaeologists have articulated such desires generally in keeping with the challenges of their times and their specific sociocultural perspectives. Given the accumulating body of…
Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa
The Rising from the Depths (RftD) network aims to identify the ways in which Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) can contribute to the sustainable development of coastal communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Although the coastal and marine heritage of eastern Africa is a valuable cultural and environmental resource, it remains largely unstudied and undervalued and is subject to significant threat from natural and anthropogenic pro…
Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study
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…
Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
The expansion of the caravan trade in eastern Africa during the nineteenth century is considered to have had significant ecological, economic and social consequences. While available historical documentary and oral sources provide valuable evidence concerning the scale, timing and spatial extent of these, as well as information about some of the key actors and agents, there remain significant gaps that have the potential to be filled by targeted …
Harvesting the winds, harvesting the rain: An introduction to the issue on Inhabiting tropical worlds
Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns
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The Material Culture of Memory
This chapter explores how is it that in some societies, such as the Dogon, a building can be literally torn down and rebuilt and yet still be regarded conceptually as the oldest building in the community, while in other societies or contexts, a building or object can be deliberately destroyed in an effort to erase the past only for its memory to survive as a consequence of this means of forgetting. In doing this, it draws on a range of case studi…
African Archaeologists Honored at the Fourth Shanghai Archaeology Forum, December 2019
Just How Long Does ‘Long-Term’ Have to Be?: Matters of Temporal Scale as Impediments to Interdisciplinary Understanding in Historical Ecology
The phrase ‘long term’ is increasingly used as a keyword descriptive for research proposals and outputs claiming to contribute to debates on past and future climate change, sustainable economies, and the resilience of different landscapes. Scholars from across the environmental and social sciences and the humanities are engaged in this kind of research and are keen to see their results used to influence policy and practice. While ostensibly addre…
Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term Perspectives on Cause and Effect
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…
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E. Based on historical and archaeological data, we suggest that, despite their proximity to and use of the sea, the level of maritimity of Swahili society increased greatly over time and was only fully realized in the early second millennium C.E. Drawing on recent theo…
Possibilities for a postcolonial archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa: Indigenous and Usable Pasts
It has long been recognized that archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa, and its public manifestation through the medium of museums, emerged within the context of European colonial rule, and that legacies of colonialism continue to shape archaeological practice across the continent. Following independence there has been steady indigenization, initially in terms of personnel but subsequently also in terms of organizational structure and research agenda…
Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies]
The 'moving frontier' and the transition to food production in Kenya
Since at least the 1960s, models of the transition to food production in East Africa have tended to be driven by various hypotheses derived from historical linguistics concerning the spread of various language families across the continent through the process of population migration. In more recent years, archaeologists, historians and historical linguists have offered various refinements to the initial models. This has certainly encouraged more …
Archaeological approaches to East Africa's changing seascapes
The East African coast has a relatively uniform topography and environment but has been witness to a complex mosaic of human and cultural influences. This paper examines these influences from a chronological and theoretical perspective over the last 2500 years and argues that increased attention should be paid to the sea and its influence on and role in past cultural activity. Such an approach would build on and complement the existing ‘Swahili’ …
Archaeology in the age of the Anthropocene: A critical assessment of its scope and societal contributions
Recent decades have witnessed heightened public and governmental awareness of the nature and scale of environmental challenges likely to face the planet over the course of the next fifty to one hundred years. Scholars from across a broad range of disciplines have been drawn into these debates and have begun to reorient their research towards finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems and to devising more sustainable and resilient liv…
The Use and Abuse of Ethnography in the Study of the Southern African Iron Age
Le recours a l'analogie ethnographique est devenu une importante composante de la reconstitution historique depuis le XVIIe siecle et, apres une periode de crise et de revision des opinions, il semble etre inevitable depuis les annees 80. Toutefois, cette methode d'interpretation prend differentes formes et une distinction et faite entre analogies formelles et analogies relationnelles. Apres un rappel des changements intervenus dans cette methode…
The transition to farming in eastern Africa: New faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya
The exploratory investigation of two sites in Kenya throws new light on the transition from a 'stone age' to an 'iron age'. The model of widespread cultural replacement by Bantu-speaking iron producers is questioned and instead the authors propose a long interaction with regional variations. In matters of lithics, ceramics, hunting, gathering, husbandry and cooking, East African people created local and eclectic packages of change between 1500BC …
Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern Africa: An Outline of Current Research and Potential Future Directions
The concept of 'landscape historical ecology' has been adopted by many researchers across the spectrum of earth sciences, social sciences and humanities in recent decades as a means of offering both conceptual and practical tools for joining very different kinds of information into an assessment of human-environment interaction. The aims of this article are to outline the analytical potential of adopting the key precepts of historical ecology for…
Exploring More than 24 Hours a Day: A Preliminary Investigation of Polychronic Time Use
The present exploratory study investigates the concept of polychronic time use through the development and preliminary testing of a proposed scale, the Polychronic Attitude Index (PAI). Polychronic time use is defined and reviewed in relation to role overload and household demographic characteristics. When a sample of consumers in New Jersey was surveyed, both the PAI and role overload were found to be related to different types of polychronic ti…
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
When considering the nature of culture contact and colonialism it is as important to study the continuities in the host society, as it is to study the impositions made by incoming peoples. The diverse relationships between colonised and colonising societies are likely to be played out in aspects of material culture. This study examines Ntsweng and Phalatswe, two Tswana settlements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period o…
Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape
This paper discusses a Samburu pastoralist landscape idiom, ntoror, that encapsulates ideas about agentive pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict; and passionate, place-based identities forged out of environmental and human-wrought disaster. The paper grows out of a project that experimentally integrated ethnographic self-scrutiny with a bio-archaeological excavation involving human remains, with the aim of encouraging reciprocal…
African Historical Archaeologies
Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: Zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya)
A zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis is presented for the faunal remains from the Pundo shell midden in northern Nyanza province (Kenya), which contains Kansyore ceramics and dates to ca. 8000-7600 cal. BP. The faunal assemblage is overwhelmingly dominated by fish and molluscs, of which only the fish data are presented in detail. Taxonomic identifications suggest a diachronic change in relative species abundance, with cichlids becoming inc…
The Green, Green Grass of Home: An archaeo-ecological approach to pastoralist settlement in central Kenya
This paper considers the ecological residues of pastoralist occupation at the site of Maili Sita in Laikipia, central Kenya, drawing links with the archaeological record so as to contribute a fresh approach to the ephemeral settlement sites of mobile herding communities, a methodological aspect of African archaeology that remains problematic. Variations in the geochemical and micromorphological composition of soils along transects across the site…
New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya
Past perspectives for the future: Foundations for sustainable development in East Africa
Ethnogenesis and surplus food production: Communitas and identity building among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ilchamus, Lake Baringo, Kenya
© 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…
Maritime and Shipwreck Archaeology in the Western Indian Ocean and Southern Red Sea: An Overview of Past and Current Research
It was maendeleo that removed them: Disturbing Burials and Reciprocal Knowledge Production in a Context of Collaborative Archaeology
Recent decades have witnessed a growth in approaches to research and writing across anthropology's four fields that emphasize the need to respect alternative narratives and constructions of history, and to engage with anthropology's 'publics'. These developments have generated more ethically responsible research and more inclusive writing practices. Nevertheless, the actual doing of cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge production remains a …
New Directions for Historical Archaeology in Eastern Africa
Recent years have seen growth in the number of historical archaeology studies in Eastern Africa. Combining critical analysis of material remains alongside the available documentary and oral sources, these offer new insights into the precolonial and colonial pasts of the region. However, the field is less well established than in either West or Southern Africa and the full potential of the subdiscipline has yet to be realised. This contribution re…
Breaking the Mould: Exhibiting Khoisan in Southern African Museums
L'Occident a souvent stereotype les Africains parmi lesquels les Khoisan d'Afrique du Sud. Les musees se sont efforces de changer ces apriori mais les expositions sont interpretees de maniere differente selon les cultures : alors que l'exposition « Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture » a la Gallerie nationale d'Afrique du Sud visait a corriger les stereotypes, les Africains ont encore eu l'impression d'etre humilies
Star Carr in a Postglacial Lakescape: 60 Years of Research
Star Carr has an international reputation in archaeology but it was just a small part of a former lakescape which has been systematically investigated at various periods over the last 60 years. The palaeo-lake and associated sites were first investigated by John W. Moore, a local amateur archaeologist and his findings led to the better known excavations of Grahame Clark. After a hiatus in research, survey and excavation resumed in the 1970s and h…
Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
Interactions between Holocene environmental changes and human subsistence strategies in semiarid parts of eastern Africa are relatively poorly understood because of a paucity of sites where contemporaneous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records are preserved. This paper presents new AMS 14 C-dated palaeoenvironmental evidence of midto late-Holocene vegetation changes, in the form of pollen, charcoal, mineralogical and δ 13 C bulk data, fr…
Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe
David Beach, M. F. C. Bourdillon, James Denbow, Martin Hall, Paul Lane, Innocent Pikirayi, Gilbert Pwiti, Thomas N. Huffman, Thomas N. Huffman, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 166 (Dec., 1997), pp. 125-143
Exploring the Limits: Frontiers and boundaries in prehistory . Edited by S. P. D e A tley and F.J. F indlow
(1987). Exploring the Limits: frontiers and boundaries in prehistory. Edited by S. P. De Atley and F.J. Findlow. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 450-452
Tourism and Social Change among the Dogon
an index of prosperity and well-being, and in others as signs of cultural debasement (Douglas 1982: 16). Typically, the growing preference for goods of industrial rather than indigenous manufacture, the adoption of new artistic and cultural practices, and the growth of a waged economy in small-scale societies have all been treated as part of a more general process of Westernization. Indeed, as elsewhere, many of these features are more prominent …
Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies]
Exploring More than 24 Hours a Day: A Preliminary Investigation of Polychronic Time Use
The present exploratory study investigates the concept of polychronic time use through the development and preliminary testing of a proposed scale, the Polychronic Attitude Index (PAI). Polychronic time use is defined and reviewed in relation to role overload and household demographic characteristics. When a sample of consumers in New Jersey was surveyed, both the PAI and role overload were found to be related to different types of polychronic ti…
Tongwe Fort
The Use and Abuse of Ethnography in the Study of the Southern African Iron Age
Le recours a l'analogie ethnographique est devenu une importante composante de la reconstitution historique depuis le XVIIe siecle et, apres une periode de crise et de revision des opinions, il semble etre inevitable depuis les annees 80. Toutefois, cette methode d'interpretation prend differentes formes et une distinction et faite entre analogies formelles et analogies relationnelles. Apres un rappel des changements intervenus dans cette methode…
Breaking the Mould: Exhibiting Khoisan in Southern African Museums
L'Occident a souvent stereotype les Africains parmi lesquels les Khoisan d'Afrique du Sud. Les musees se sont efforces de changer ces apriori mais les expositions sont interpretees de maniere differente selon les cultures : alors que l'exposition « Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture » a la Gallerie nationale d'Afrique du Sud visait a corriger les stereotypes, les Africains ont encore eu l'impression d'etre humilies
Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe
David Beach, M. F. C. Bourdillon, James Denbow, Martin Hall, Paul Lane, Innocent Pikirayi, Gilbert Pwiti, Thomas N. Huffman, Thomas N. Huffman, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 166 (Dec., 1997), pp. 125-143
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
When considering the nature of culture contact and colonialism it is as important to study the continuities in the host society, as it is to study the impositions made by incoming peoples. The diverse relationships between colonised and colonising societies are likely to be played out in aspects of material culture. This study examines Ntsweng and Phalatswe, two Tswana settlements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period o…
African archaeology today
For most archaeologists across the globe, mention of Africa in the context of archaeological research will probably bring to mind the important discoveries of early stone tools and hominid remains in eastern and southern Africa, the spectacular stone-walled enclosures and other structures at Great Zimbabwe, and images of 'tribal' culture, subsistence practices, artefacts and housing that, to some Western eyes at least, can seem reminiscent of a m…
Ulster and the Indian Ocean? Recent maritime archaeological research on the East African coast
In January 2001, a team of researchers from the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) conducted an innovative maritime archaeology project on the East African coast in partnership with the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the National Museums of Kenya. Its focus was Mombasa Island on the southern Kenyan coast, a historical settlement and port for nearly 2000 years (Berg 1968; Sassoon 1980; 1982). The East African seaboard, stretching fro…
Soil erosion, iron smelting and human settlement in the Haubi Basin, north-central Tanzania
The Haubi Basin, situated in the Irangi Hills of Kondoa District, Dodoma Region, Tanzania (FIGURE 1), exhibits some of the most extreme examples of erosion and associated sedimentation in the region (Christiansson 1981; Payton et al. 1992) (FIGLIRE 2). The severity of the problem, with its consequent loss of productive land, has been known since the beginning of the 20th century (Kannenberg 1900; Obst 1915). Recognition of the extent and severity…
African Historical Archaeologies
Richard Bradly. The Past Prehistoric Societies. xiv+171 pages, 54 figures, 10 tables. 2002. London and New York: Routledge; 0-415-27627-6 hardback, 0-415-27628-4 paperback
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Innocent Pikirayi. The Zimbabwe culture: Origins and decline of southern Zambezian states. xxx+305 pages, 52 figures, 25 maps, 3 tables. 2001 Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira; 0-7591-0090-X hardback $65, 0…
Innocent Pikirayi. The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian states. xxx+305 pages, 52 figures, 25 maps, 3 tables. 2001 Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira; 0-7591-0090-X hardback 24.95. - Volume 77 Issue 298
Re-constructing Tswana Townscapes: Toward a Critical Historical Archaeology
African Historical Archaeologies: An Introductory Consideration of Scope and Potential
Archaeology for Whose Interest – Archaeologists or the Locals
Archaeological research in East Africa started over eighty years ago with two major spatial foci, one centred on the interior along the Eastern Rift Valley, and the other along the coast from Somalia south as far as Mozambique. Initially, research in the interior was mostly concerned with hominid evolution and the Early Stone Age, and Later Stone Age rock art, resulting in the discovery of numerous internationally famous archaeological localities…
African Historical Archaeologies
The 'moving frontier' and the transition to food production in Kenya
Since at least the 1960s, models of the transition to food production in East Africa have tended to be driven by various hypotheses derived from historical linguistics concerning the spread of various language families across the continent through the process of population migration. In more recent years, archaeologists, historians and historical linguists have offered various refinements to the initial models. This has certainly encouraged more …
Archaeological approaches to East Africa's changing seascapes
The East African coast has a relatively uniform topography and environment but has been witness to a complex mosaic of human and cultural influences. This paper examines these influences from a chronological and theoretical perspective over the last 2500 years and argues that increased attention should be paid to the sea and its influence on and role in past cultural activity. Such an approach would build on and complement the existing ‘Swahili’ …
Comment on "Present and Future of the British Schools, Institutes and Societies Abroad"
Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
Interactions between Holocene environmental changes and human subsistence strategies in semiarid parts of eastern Africa are relatively poorly understood because of a paucity of sites where contemporaneous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records are preserved. This paper presents new AMS 14 C-dated palaeoenvironmental evidence of midto late-Holocene vegetation changes, in the form of pollen, charcoal, mineralogical and δ 13 C bulk data, fr…
Present to Past: Ethnoarchaeology
Process-based models for port evolution and wreck site formation at Mombasa, Kenya
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