Kilombe Volcano, Kenya

John Gowlett; James Cole; Andy Herries; Sally Hoare; Ian Stanistreet; Stephen Rucina

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_36

Kilombe Volcano, Kenya

John Gowlett, James Cole, Andy Herries, Sally Hoare, Ian Stanistreet, Stephen Rucina

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Kilombe is an extinct volcano lying on the western flank of the Rift Valley in Kenya, immediately south of the Equator. Over the period it has been subject to research, it has yielded a remarkably long sequence of archaeological sites with different typo-technological characteristics, including Early Stone Age (ESA: Oldowan and Acheulean), Middle Stone Age (MSA), and traces of the Later Stone Age (LSA), contained within a sedimentary record extending through almost the whole of the Pleistocene. It is best known for the Acheulean occupation of the extensive Kilombe Main Site, GqJh1 (Gowlett, et al. 2015), which is approximately one million years old (Ma), but a renewed program of research has revealed a new sequence of Oldowan and early Acheulean sites in Kilombe Caldera, as well as early MSA sites on the mountain flank (Hoare, et al. 2021).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
Subtitle of host publication	Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
Editors	A Beyin, D.K Wright, J Wilkins, D.I Olszewski
Publisher	Springer
Pages	577-593
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031202902
ISBN (Print)	9783031202896
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_36
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2023

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