Archeology in the Turkana District, Kenya

Abstract

For many years scientists have noted that northwest Kenya was likely to be a very important area for archeological research. In particular, the Turkana District, which connects East Africa with the Sudan and Ethiopia, has long intrigued scholars (1). Nevertheless, because of the remoteness of the region, very little systematic fieldwork has been done there. Recent investigations, however, are shedding much new light on the area (2). In this article, I review the archeological sequence and present original data bearing on the cultural relations between East Africa and the middle Nile Valley during the Holocene.