The Pastoral Neolithic of East Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7324917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Bower (0009-0005-8991-1939), John R Bower (Iowa State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-82 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World Prehistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-7537 • E-ISSN: 1573-7802 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00974732 |
| OpenAlex | W2074090611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 82 |
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Ecological succession · Geography · Herding · Livestock · Middle East · Population · Prehistory · Subsistence agriculture · Subsistence economy · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
East and Southern African Neolithic
East and Southern African Neolithic
African Archaeology
Première caractérisation des faciès céramiques néolithiques de la région du Gobaad en République de Djibouti. Les sites d’Hara-Idé 2 et d’Asa-Koma (As-Eyla, district de Dikhil)
Surrogate surfaces
The materiality of mobile pastoralism
Detecting architectural features and stratigraphic deposits at a Pastoral Neolithic site using ground-penetrating radar
Cemeteries on a moving frontier
Early food production in Africa
Hunter–Gatherer Land Use Patterns in Later Stone Age East Africa
Hunter–Gatherer Foraging Strategies in Tropical Grasslands
Frontier Animal Husbandry in the Northeast and East African Neolithic
Multi-stage dispersal of Southwest Asian domestic livestock and the path of pastoralism in the Middle Nile Valley
Animal disease challenges” fifteen years later
Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa
Insights into herd management among East Africa's earliest pastoralists
Stone Cairns and Material Culture of the Middle to Late Holocene, Lake Turkana
A German Rifle Casing and Chief Mkwawa of the Wahehe
Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River basin, Kenyan coastal lowlands
Alternative Complexities
The last 200,000 years (or thereabouts) in Eastern Africa
Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation dynamics on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
Environmental change and political-economic upheaval in precolonial western Uganda
Late-Holocene savanna dynamics in the Amboseli Basin, Kenya
Fire and human record at Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the Early Iron Age
Paleoenvironmental context of archaeological sites, implications for subsistence strategies under Holocene climate change, northern Kenya
Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya
Identification of pigments used in rock art paintings in Gode Roriso-Ethiopia using Micro-Raman spectroscopy
Early pastoral mobility and seasonality in Kenya assessed through stable isotope analysis
Dating beeswax pictograms from Gode Roriso in Ethiopia
Animal Disease Challenges to the Emergence of Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
An African origin for African cattle? ? some archaeological evidence
Remaki n g the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda
Lakeside View
Accuracy vs. Precision
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Dongodien, Lake Turkana, Kenya and OSL Dating of Site Occupation During Late Holocene Climate Change
Knowledge Transmission Through the Lens of Lithic Production
Nderit Ware” and the origins of pastoralist pottery in eastern Africa
The Elmenteitan Obsidian Quarry (GsJj50)
Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia
Picking up The Pieces
New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade
Quantifying Endscraper Reduction in the Context of Obsidian Exchange Among Early Pastoralists in Southwestern Kenya
Hunter to herder
Geo-Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Sites
Transport and Subsistence Patterns at the Transition to Pastoralism, Koobi Fora, Kenya
Human burials at the Kisese II rockshelter, Tanzania
The Turkwel settlement at Oltioki in Baringo
The 'moving frontier' and the transition to food production in Kenya
Early Pastoralists in East Africa
Automated SEM-EDS mineralogical characterisation of archaeological pottery from Luxmanda and Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania
Oral histories and the impact of archaeological fieldwork in contact encounters
Cattle Before Crops
Early African Pastoralism
Revisiting cremation practices of the Pastoral Neolithic in Kenya
Lithic technological organization of the 'Elmenteitan' early herders in southern Kenya
Dynamic human-animal-environment relationships at two Later Stone Age sites in Holocene southeastern Uganda
A multi-component forager-to-herder sequence at Kapsoo Rockshelter (Chebinyiny) on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, Kenya
Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa
The lithic assemblage from Sugenya, a Pastoral Neolithic site of the Elmenteitan tradition in southwestern Kenya
John Bower, 1935–2017
Pastoralists in the northeastern Mara Plains, Kenya
The introduction of pastoralism to southernmost Africa
Grinding-stone implements in the eastern African Pastoral Neolithic
General/Specific, Local/Global
Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya
Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania
Lithic technological strategies of the earliest herders at Lake Turkana, northern Kenya
Urban precursors in the Horn
Place-making, participative archaeologies and Mursi megaliths
Museums in Kenya
The distribution of wealth
The archaeology of the western highlands of Kenya
Hunters in transition
Early pastoralists of south-western Kenya
The later prehistory of eastern and southern Africa
From Hunters to Farmers
Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands
The Introduction of Pastoral Adaptations to the Highlands of East Africa
Advent and Course of Pastoralism in the Kalahari
Radiocarbon Dating of East African Lake Levels
Reconstruction of African human diet using bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios
The appropriation of nature
Background to Evolution in Africa
A New Framework for the Study of Early Pastoral Communities in East Africa
Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments in the Sahara
Prehistoric Cultures and Environments in the Late Quaternary of Africa
The Prehistory of Stone Age Herders in the Cape Province of South Africa
Recent Archaeological Research in Southeastern Ethiopia. 1974 - 1975
Cattle and pastoralism
A Review of Pottery from the Kenya Highlands
Chronology of the Khartoum ?Mesolithic? and ?Neolithic? and related sites in the Sudan
Environmental limitations on prehistoric pastoralism in Africa
Problems in the interpretation of radiocarbon dates
Cattle domestication in North Africa
A Painted Rock Shelter on Mt Elgon, Kenya
Precision and Definition in African Archaeology
The Prehistory of East Africa
Faunal Evidence for Prehistoric Herder-Forager Activities at Kasteelberg, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Obsidian sources and patterns of source utilization in Kenya and northern Tanzania
Tanzania Notes and Records
New Light on Early Food-Production in the Central Sudan
The Aquatic Civilization of Middle Africa
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Notes on the Origins of Pastoral Nomadism
Notes on an Archaeological Reconnaissance of Mt. Elgon, Kenya
The Predynastic of Egypt
From stone to metal
Desert environment and origins of agriculture in Egypt
Seronera
The University of Massachusetts' Later Stone Age/Pastoral ‘Neolithic’ Comparative Study in Central Kenya
Evidence for Predation and Pastoralism at Prolonged Drift
Excavations at Deloraine, Rongai, 1978
Excavations at Narosura, a Stone Bowl Site in the Southern Kenya Highlands
Early domestic stock at Dongodien in Northern Kenya
Rangi
Further Excavations of Pastoral Neolithic Sites in Serengeti
Lowasera
Hyrax Hill and the Sirikwa
The Okiek and Their History
Shell Middens on the Shores of Lake Victoria
The Date of the Cremated Burials in Njoro River Cave
Pottery Traditions of Early Pastoral Communities in Kenya
Excavations at Ngenyn (Baringo District, Kenya)
The Excavation of a Group of Burial Mounds at Ilkek near Gilgil, Kenya
Early Iron Age and Kansyore Pottery
Later Stone Age Investigation in the Laikipia Highlands, Kenya
A Reassessment of the Stone Bowl Cultures of the Rift Valley, Kenya
Excavations at the Njoro River Cave
The identification of pastoral peoples in the archaeological record
The African aqualithic
The elmenteitan
The African Frontier
Early Pottery and Pastoral Cultures of the Central Rift Valley, Kenya
Origins of Specialized Pastoral Production in East Africa
The Prehistory of East Africa
Sahelian Pastoralists
The Origins of Agriculture
Rethinking the Role of Bos indicus in Sub-Saharan Africa
Origin and Early Development of Food-producing Cultures in Northeastern Africa
| Unique citing works | 71 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,03 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |