Photo Credit: Photo of Gede archaeological site, Kenya by Matthew C. Curtis, 1994, © Matthew C. Curtis. Map Credit: Google Maps.

Links to General Resources

Africa.com Kenya Museum Guide

Institute for Indian Ocean Heritage

Kenya Country Profile page from UCLA African Studies Center

Link to Kenya heritage laws page from the World Wide Web Library of African Archaeology

National Museums of Kenya

Oxford Bibliographies Archaeology of Eastern Africa page

Stanford University Libraries Africa South of the Sahara Kenya page

UNESCO World Heritage Centre Kenya page

Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, and Cultural Heritage Project/Institute/Society Websites

Aga Kahn Univesity Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations - Swahili History & Archaeology

Aluka.org JSTOR World Heritage Sites Africa - A Bibliography Contextualizing Lamu, Kenya

Aluka.org JSTOR World Heritage Sites Africa - David Coulson Africa Heritage Collection 

Aluka.org JSTOR Africa World Heritage Sites - Photographs of Lamu Island Collection

British Institute in Eastern Africa

British Museum's African Rock Art Image Project - Kenya

Christensen Fund African Rift Valley programs

In Africa project: The role of East Africa in the evolution of human diversity

Institute for Indian Ocean Heritage

Marakwet Heritage Project, Kenya

National Museums of Kenya

REAL - Resilience in East African Landscapes

REAL ITN on Facebook

Sealinks Project - University of Oxford

Sealinks Project - UCL Institute of Archaeology

Smithsonian Institute Olorgesailie Project

Thimlich Ohinga, Kenya project

The Gallmann Memorial Foundation Ol Ari Nyiro archaeology project

Turkana Basin Institute

Trust for African Rock Art (TARA)

News and Media

CNN Inside Africa program videos "Rock Art Across Africa is Dying" featuring the work of Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) in Nairobi, Kenya

CNN Inside Africa program videos "Swahili Culture's Rich, Complex History"

CNN story - "Oldest Stone Tools Found in Kenya"

Nature video: Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare (Nataruk, Kenya)

PBS Wonders of the African World - The Swahili Coast

Science (AAAS): World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered in Kenya

Links to Recently Published (2015-2016) Scholarly Journal Articles Concerning Archaeology and Material Cultural Heritage in Kenya

2016

Experimental and archaeological investigations of backed microlith function among Mid-to-Late Holocene herders in southwestern Kenya. Steven T. Goldstein and Christopher M. Shaffer. 2016.  Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8(3):1-22. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0329-9.

Historical Archaeology in East Africa: Past Practice and Future Directions.  Peter R. Schmidt. 2016.  The Journal of African History 57(2):183 - 194. DOI: 10.1017/S0021853715000791

Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. M. Mirazón Lahr, F. Rivera, R. K. Power, A. Mounier, B. Copsey, F. Crivellaro, J. E. Edung, J. M. Maillo Fernandez, C. Kiarie, J. Lawrence, A. Leakey, E. Mbua, H. Miller, A. Muigai, D. M. Mukhongo, A. Van Baelen, R. Wood, J.-L. Schwenninger, R. Grün, H. Achyuthan, A. Wilshaw & R. A. Foley. 2016. Nature 529:394-398. DOI:10.1038/nature16477

Landscape, time and cultural resilience: a brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya. Matthew I. J. Davies & Henrietta L. Moore. 2016. Journal of Eastern African Studies 10(1):67-87. DOI:10.1080/17531055.2015.1134417.

The Current Status of the Kenya Capsian.  Alex Wilshaw. 2016. African Archaeological Review 33(1):13–27. DOI: 10.1007/s10437-016-9211-5.

2015

An Archaeological Survey of the Lake Baringo Lowlands 2014: Preliminary Results.  Nik Petek. 2015. Nyame Akuma 83.

Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: past approaches and future directions.  Ceri Z. Ashley & Katherine M. Grillo. 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):460-480. DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1102939

Ethnographic Photographs and Quotidian History: An Archaeological Approach to the Recent Past in Turkana, Northern Kenya. Sam Derbyshire. 2015. Nyame Akuma 84.

Fifty years in the archaeology of the eastern African coast: a methodological history. Stephanie Wynne-Jones & Jeffrey Fleisher. 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4): 519-541. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2015.1102943.

Heritage and memory in East Africa today: a review of recent developments in cultural heritage research and memory studies. Marie-Aude Fouéré & Lotte Hughes. 2015.  Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):542-558. DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1102940.

Iron production in second millennium AD pastoralist contexts on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya.  Louise Iles & Paul Lane.  2015.  Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(3):372-401. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2015.1079379

Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya. David K. Wright, Steven L. Forman, Purity Kiura, Christopher Bloszies, and Amanuel Beyin. African Archaeological Review 32(2):335–367. DOI: 10.1007/s10437-015-9185-8.

Making metals in East Africa and beyond: archaeometallurgy in Azania, 1966–2015. Louise Iles & Edwinus Lyaya.  2015.  Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):481-494. DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1102941.

Potsherds Coated with Lime Mortar Along the East African Coast: Their Origin and Significance. Elgidius B. Ichumbaki and Edward Pollard. 2015. African Archaeological Review 32(3):443-463. DOI: 10.1007/s10437-015-9196-5.

Problems Facing Conservation of Kipsaraman Fossil Site, Tugen Hills, Kenya. v3n2a4.  Daniel Kipkorir & Simiyu Wandibba. 2015. Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology 3( 2): 49-64. DOI:10.15640/jaa.v3n2a

When Did the Swahili become Maritime? Jeffrey Fleisher, Paul Lane, Adria LaViolette, Annalisa Christie, Mark Horton, Edward Pollard, Erendira Quintana Morales, Thomas Vernet, & Stephanie Wynne-Jones. 2015. American Anthropologist 117(1):100-115.

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya. Sonia Harmand, Jason E. Lewis, Craig S. Feibel, Christopher J. Lepre, Sandrine Prat, Arnaud Lenoble, Xavier Boës, Rhonda L. Quinn, Michel Brenet, Adrian Arroyo, Nicholas Taylor, Sophie Clément, Guillaume Daver, Jean-Philip Brugal, Louise Leakey, Richard A. Mortlock, James D. Wright, Sammy Lokorodi, Christopher Kirwa, Dennis V. Kent, & Hélène Roche. 2015. Nature 521:310-315. DOI:10.1038/nature14464

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