New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana

Steven Goldstein; Elisabeth Hildebrand; Michael Storozum; Elizabeth Sawchuk; Jason Lewis; Cecilia Ngugi; Lawrence H. Robbins

doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.215

New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana

Steven Goldstein
, Elisabeth Hildebrand
, Michael Storozum
, Elizabeth Sawchuk
, Jason Lewis
, Cecilia Ngugi
, Lawrence H. Robbins

Anthropology

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Nanyang Technological University
Stony Brook University
National Museums of Kenya
Michigan State University

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The Lothagam harpoon site in north-west Kenya's Lake Turkana Basin provides a stratified Holocene sequence capturing changes in African fisher-hunter-gatherer strategies through a series of subtle and dramatic climate shifts (Figure 1). The site rose to archaeological prominence following Robbins's 1965-1966 excavations, which yielded sizeable lithic and ceramic assemblages and one of the largest collections of Early Holocene human remains from Eastern Africa (Robbins 1974; Angel et al. 1980).

Original language	English
Article number	00215
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	91
Issue number	360
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.215
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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