East Turkana, Kenya

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Late Pleistocene Landscape Archaeology

Since 2013 I have collaborated with the Koobi Fora Research and Training Program in northern Kenya as a researcher and student mentor. KFRTP is a collaborative project coordinated by The George Washington University and the National Museums of Kenya. This cutting-edge training program provides students with hands-on research-focused training in paleoanthropology, ecology, paleontology, and archaeology at one of the most famous paleanthropological sites in the world.


KFFSWithin the KFRTP my research investigates Late Pleistocene landscape archaeology. Since 2015 we have conducted targeted geoarchaeological surveys at Ileret, Karari, and Koobi Fora. Through these surveys, several scatters of Middle Stone Age artifacts were documented, as well as in situ Late Pleistocene sediments. Beginning in 2016 our team has excavated GaJj17 near Lake Turkana. This work is conducted in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of the Witswatersrand. We are grateful to The Leakey Foundation and The Wenner-Gren Foundation.

 

Published Abstracts

*denotes student co-author

2017 *Murray, B.M.; Ranhorn, K.L.; Colarossi, D.; *Mavuso, S.S.; *Dogandzic, T.; *Ziegler, M.J.; *Warren, S.L.; Braun, D.R.; Harris, J.W.K., 2017. Multiscalar Approach to Archaeological Site Formation at GaJj17, East Turkana, Kenya, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 49(6).

2017 *Ssebuyungo, C.; Dogandžić, T.; Ranhorn, K.L.; *Mavuso, S.S.; *Hagen, L.V.H.; *Jirsa, C.E.; *Ziegler, M.J.; *Warren, S.L.; Harris, J.W.K.; Braun, D.R. Site Formation Process at GaJj17 (East Turkana, Kenya), Eastern African Association for Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2017 Ranhorn, K.L.; *Dogandžić, T.; *Mavuso, S.S.; *Sseyebungo, C.; *Hagen, L.V.; *Jirsa, C.E.; *Ziegler, M.J.; *Warren, S.L.; Harris, J.W.K.; Braun, D.R. GaJj17: An MSA Lake Shore Site at East Turkana, Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.

2017 *Hagen, L.V.; Ranhorn, K.L.; *Dogandzic, T.; Harris, J.W.; Braun, D.R. Lithic Analysis of GaJj17: a Middle Stone Age Locality in Koobi Fora, northern Kenya, Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.

2017 *Jirsa, C.; *Dogandzic, T.; Ranhorn, K.; Braun, D.R. Assessing Edge Damage in MSA Lithic Assemblages: Experimental Proxies for the Analysis of Use and Post-Depositional Damage Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.

2017 *Warren, S.L.; *Ziegler, M.J.; *Mavuso, S.S.; *Dogandžić, T.; Ranhorn, K.L.; Harris, J.; Braun, D.R. Mapping MSA Deposits: Regional Geological Investigation of Upper Chari Member Sediments in the Ileret Region, East Turkana, Kenya, Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.

2017 *Ziegler, M.J.; *Warren, S.L.; *Sseyebungo, C.; *Mavuso, S.S.; *Dogandžić, T.; Harris, J.; Ranhorn, K.L.; Braun, D.R. Site Formation Analysis of Locality GaJj17 in the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya, Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.

2016 Ranhorn, K.L.; Braun, D.R.; Tryon, C.A.; Brooks, A.S.B. Late Pleistocene Lithic Technological Patterns in East Africa, Society for American Archaeology Program and Abstracts.