Journal
AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 507-530Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2016.1249587
Keywords
Historical ecology; geoarchaeology; pastoralism; Laikipia; Kenya
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- Ministry of Education [MOEST 13/014, 13/001/35C591]
- British Academy under BIEA's project: Landscape and Environmental Change in Semi-Arid Regions of Eastern and Southern Africa - Developing Interdisciplinary Approaches
- European Union [MEXT-CT-2006-042704]
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- AHRC
- UCL Graduate School
- Institute of Archaeology UCL
- British Institute in Eastern Africa
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This paper considers the ecological residues of pastoralist occupation at the site of Maili Sita in Laikipia, central Kenya, drawing links with the archaeological record so as to contribute a fresh approach to the ephemeral settlement sites of mobile herding communities, a methodological aspect of African archaeology that remains problematic. Variations in the geochemical and micromorphological composition of soils along transects across the site are compared with vegetation distributions and satellite imagery to propose an occupation pattern not dissimilar to contemporary Cushitic-speaking groups further north. We argue that Maili Sita exemplifies the broad migratory and cultural exchange networks in place during the mid- to late second millennium AD, with pastoralist occupants who were both physically and culturally mobile.
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