Middle Holocene Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of Lake Turkana in Kenya and Their Cultural Connections with the North: The Pottery

摘要: During the Early and Middle Holocene, large areas of today’s arid regions in North East Africa were populated by fisher-hunter-gatherer communities who heavily relied on aquatic resources. In Africa, Wavy Line pottery harpoons are their most salient diagnostic features. Similar finds have also been made at sites Kenya’s Lake Turkana region but a clear classification was previously not available. order to elucidate cultural connections between Turkana’s first potters African groups, Koobi Fora that excavated John Barthelme 1970/80s re-assessed detail. It compared contrasted – regional scale with from Lowasera near Lothagam (Zu4, Zu6) supra-regional Central Nile Valley eastern Sahara. The analyses reveal some significant points: Firstly, early fisher is clearly typologically affiliated Khartoum thus part complex. Secondly, certain typological features assemblages, which include only few Dotted patterns, tentatively hint date least 7th millennium bp or earlier. Thirdly, suggest fisher-hunter-gatherers adopted Northeast Africa.