Kenyan Culture History and Archaeology

Center for Human Evolutionary Studies
Rutgers University, archaeology and paleoanthropology in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Enkapune Ya Muto (Kenya)
The Enkapune Ya Muto rockshelter (also called Twilight Cave) is located on the Mau Escarpment of the central Rift Valley in Kenya.

Gedi
Islamic archaeological site on the Swahili coast in Kenya.

Hyrax Hill
The archaeological region of Hyrax Hill is an area investigated by Louis and Mary Leakey that receives little attention

Jarigole Pillar (Kenya)
The Jarigole Pillar site is a Neolithic pastoralist site located at the foot of the Jarigole Hills in Kenya.

Kanapoi
Australopithecus anamensis, a new hominid species from the Lake Turkana region, an article in Archaeology Online.

Koobi Fora
Ancient hominid archaeological site in northern Kenya, east of Lake Turkana, discovered by Richard Leakey in 1968.

Lokalalei (Kenya)
The Lower Paleolithic archaeological sites called Lokalalei are located in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya

Nariokotome
The site of Nariokotome is located in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya, where the nearly complete skeleton of a boy between the ages of 11 and 13 and classified as Homo ergaster was found.

Olorgesailie
Olorgesailie is a geological formation in southern Kenya, East Africa where several Lower Paleolithic archaeological sites have been discovered.

Olorgesailie
The archaeological site known as Olorgesailie is an Acheulean site in Kenya, East Africa, and dated to about 7.5-1 million years ago.

Shanga
The archaeological site of Shanga is located on an island in the Lamu archipelago off the coast of Kenya in eastern Africa.

Sirikwa Holes
The term Sirikwa Holes is the local name for depressions found throughout the western highlands of Kenya and in northern Tanzania; they represent late Iron Age hut locations.