New archaeological investigations at the Lothagam harpoon site at Lake Turkana

• Main Authors: Goldstein, Steven, Hildebrand, Elisabeth, Storozum, Michael, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Lewis, Jason, Ngugi, Cecilia, Robbins, Lawrence H.
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Archaeological; Lothagam
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146623
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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).