| dc.description.abstract | This work concern barbed bone harpoons from four Holocene fishing settlement sites in the Lake Turkana Basin. The harpoons are a component of the assemblages recovered by excavation. The study has been undertaken to find the significance of these tools in the assemblages and the relationship between harpoons from different fishing settlements.
The first chapter present the project and hypothesis
being tested. Second chapter discuss the palaeoenvironmental
history of East and North Africa and the Lake Turkana Basin
since the close of the pleistocene to the present. The third
chapter discuss the Holocene 'archaeology of East and North
Africa and Lake Turkana Basin. The fourth chapter present the
geo-environmental setting, dating and artifactual contexts ot
the four studied sites. The studied sites are Lothagam,
Lovasera, GaJi 11 and GaJi 12.
Chapter five concern the methods employed in analysing
bone harpoons from the four sites. Chapter six is the
analysis where description, comparison of harpoons and
cultural reconstruction of harpoon culture dispersal into lake
Turkana Basin are done. In chapter seven, the procedure and
results of experimental work undertaken are presented.
Finally, in chapter eight summary and conclusions are made.
The harpoon culture reached the Lake Turkana basin from
Ethiopia where it had reached from Zaire. In manufacturing
harpoons there was need to select big straight fresh bones.
The harpoons were made by the same people who vere in close
contact.The people used the same technology of
manufacturing. The semi-sedentary life shows there was
intersite movement in the Turkana Basin. | en |
