The Green, Green Grass of Home: an archaeo-ecological approach to pastoralist settlement in central Kenya

Boles, Oliver J. C.UCL, Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England. (author)

The Green, Green Grass of Home : an archaeo-ecological approach to pastoralist settlement in central Kenya

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.

Lane, Paul J.Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia,Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, South Africa.(Swepub:uu)paula859 (author)
UCL, Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England.Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia (creator_code:org_t)

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