Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River basin, Kenyan coastal lowlands

摘要: AbstractHuman activity along the Galana River inside Tsavo National Park, Kenya extends from 6000 years BP until at least 1300 BP. This time period in East Africa predates and includes Pastoral Neolithic – geographically temporally linked early cattle-herding cultures comprised of autonomous communities with loose cultural connections to one another. Data some sites located Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin Central Kenyan Highlands indicate that after 3000 BP, residential mobility patterns increased pastoralists adopted a strong dependence on maintaining culling herds domesticated animals. pattern is not borne out Tsavo, where artefact analyses people had restricted relied primarily exploitation an endoaquatic resource base. study hypothesises subdecadal periodicity El Nino/Southern Oscillation index (ENSO) general trend toward aridification African landscapes provided environ...