A Sirikwa Hole on Mount Elgon

Chapman, Susannah

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“…After 1300 BC, a shift to more specialized forms of pastoralism is found throughout East Africa until AD 700 (Ambrose, 1984b;Marshall, 1990). Thereafter, it is generally assumed that many of the elements of the PN evolve into Pastoral Iron Age societies, as evidenced by the Sirikwa "holes" in the Central Rift Valley (Chapman, 1966;Kyule, 1997;Sutton, 1965Sutton, , 1973Sutton, , 1987Sutton, , 1998, Deloraine (Ambrose, 1984a) and at sites located on the Laikipia Plateau (Siiriäinen, 1984). However, the faunal material recovered from the site of Kathuva reflects that the diet of its inhabitants remained diverse throughout all occupations of the site.…”

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New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade: A View from Tsavo National Park, Kenya

Wright

2005

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Archaeologists are interested in understanding whether cross-cultural contact catalyzed by exchange of commodities is a means for people to acquire new technology and cultural ideas. This paper reports the results and analysis of archaeological investigations in Tsavo NationalPark, Kenya in 2001 and 2004 that have recovered evidence of indirect contact between late pastoral neolithic (PN) herders and early iron working (EIW) communities. Analysis of stylistic motifs on ceramics used by both PN and EIW people show that socially constructed notions of aesthetics are similar, implying that a strong cultural connection between the two groups may be possible. New lexico-statistical analyses and archaeological data from Tanzania corroborate that the prehistoric East African milieu was more complex than previously believed. However, pastoralists in Tsavo show no evidence of utilizing iron technology or altering their subsistence strategies among the >10,000 artifacts spanning 4,000+ years of prehistory recovered in the 2001 field season. Thus, long-distance and long-term contact between socially connected groups possessing different technological and subsistence foundations does not necessarily lead to a diffusion of new survival strategies. Les archéologues sont intéressésà comprendre la diffusion technologique et culturelle préhistorique [Les archeologues se sont interestes a comprendre la diffusion prehistorique de la technologie et de la culture]. Le contact entre les cultures catalysées par l'échange des produits est des moyens pour que les personnes acquièrent la nouvelle technologie et les idées culturelles. Cependant, le point auquel certaines idées sont acceptées ou rejetées demeure irrésolu. [Quand le contact contre-culturelle s'allie avec l'exchange de produits, les deux fournissent les nouvelles idees culturelles et technologiques aux gens. Mais, le point d D'autres 111 0263-0338/05/0900-0111/0 C 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 112 Wright données sont nécessaires pour augmenter nos compréhension de l'échange des idées entre les groupes de personnes et comment des changements de technologie. Les investigations archéologiques en parc national de Tsavo, Kenya dans 2001 ont récupéré l'évidence du contact indirect entre les bouviers néolithiques pastoraux (PN) en retard et les premières communautés du fondre de fer (EIW). L'analyse des motifs stylistiques sur la céramique utiliser par des personnes de PN et d'EIW prouvent que les notions socialement construites de l'esthétique sont semblables, impliquant qu'un raccordement culturel fort entre les deux groupes peutêtre possible. Les nouvelles analyses lexico-statistiques et les données archéologiques de Tanzanie corroborent que le milieu africain est préhistoriqueétait plus complexe que précédemment cru. Cependant, les bouviers préhistorique dans Tsavo ne montrent aucuneévidence d'utiliser la technologie de fer ou de changer leurs stratégies de subsistance parmi les >10.000 objets façonnés enjambant les années 4.000+ de la préhistoire récupérées dans la...

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New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade: A View from Tsavo National Park, Kenya

Wright

2005

Afr Archaeol Rev

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“…10. Important exceptions to this include Chapman (1966), Lofgren (1967), Posnansky (1967) and Scully (1969).…”

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Lane

Reid

2015

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…Sirikwa ware appears in the archaeological record around the seventh century AD (Bower & Nelson 1978). Related pottery excavated from sites in the Western highlands (Sutton 1973) and at Kabyoyon (Chapman 1966) would, in this order, and by virtue of their later place in chronological terms, form a separate variant of the Lanet ware which is closely allied to the central rift regional type. Other variants of Lanet ware are reported to have been excavated at the sites of Salasun, Nderit Drift, Akira and Seronera (Ambrose 1984a), and the Deloraine Iron Age pre-Sirikwa site (Cohen 1970;Ambrose 1984b).…”

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Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya

Deisser¹,

Njuguna²

2016

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. As scientists, historians and archaeologists continue to uncover, study and promote access to tangible and intangible cultural heritage, there are ever increasing challenges that pervade conservation efforts. Heritage conservation is threatened as the world globalizes and African economies open up to new realms of growth in the international markets while increased building construction, infrastructural expansion as well as terrorism destroy existing heritage assets. Kenya in particular prides itself as a prodigious habitat for abundant and various natural and cultural heritage assets including archaeological sites, wildlife, landscapes and folklores. However, the different forms cultural and natural heritage take and the complexity of the conservation challenges are not congealed; their constant and respective evolution requires continuous regeneration of competence, technology and value systems. Conservators must therefore seek to expand existing principles and practices in the management of cultural and natural heritage, including the assessment of values attributed to the heritage, questions of reversibility and replica as well as access and security issues.Cultural heritage conservation is not one of the subjects that have been accorded great attention in Kenya over the past century. The editors and contributors aim, however, to highlight and expand conservation studies from the confines of technical and scientific management expertise into the strata of matters engrained in local populations and the intrinsic links between communities, and their cultural and natural environment within the Kenyan legal framework. An in-depth discussion on contradictions in existing laws in Kenya exposes the difficulties in implementing conservation guidelines.This book gives voice to subjects and highlights heritage uncared for, which helps to tell and understand the national narrative. The heritage mentioned includes monuments, trafficking of African antiquities, wildlife, cultural tourism, indigenous methods of conservation, the participation and empowerment of communities as immediate beneficiaries and vi F O RE WO RD makers of the culture. Consequently, ownership rights and utilization of heritage resources is presented as an issue of human rights and democracy. This book also introduces rural landscapes from the dimension of aesthetics and how these can be understood and used as a socio-cultural resource. It is a book that opens up conversations on 'esoteric' historical issues such as colonization and the influence of religion on cultural practices.Kenyan scholars have for a long time relied on foreign knowledge in seeking to understand and expl...

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A Sirikwa Hole on Mount Elgon

Cited by 13 publications

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New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade: A View from Tsavo National Park, Kenya

New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade: A View from Tsavo National Park, Kenya

Editorial:Azaniaat Fifty

Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya

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