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...Lawrence H. Robbins Pioneering research in the Holocene archaeology of Lake Turkana contributed significantly to the development of broader issues in the prehistory of Africa, including the aquatic civilization model and the initial spread of domesticated livestock in East Africa. These topics...

...Robert O. Collins This essay seeks to place the events in Turkan during the first decades of the twentieth century into a wider perspective. Despite their modest numbers and the wasteland they inhabited, the challenge to the Turkana did not come from their neighbors, whom they could raid...

...Michael N. I. Lokuruka; Pauline A. Lokuruka The original wave of Turkana immigrants from southwestern Sudan coalesced over time—through intermarriage with earlier inhabitants of Turkan (Turkana country) and with other nomadic pastoralists in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sudan—to grow into Ngturkana...

...Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler This article examines the implicit meaning of the well-known Jie and Turkana oral tradition of origin known as Nayeche, as a remembered memory and a repeated event. The images of the remembered messages of the past event contained in the Nayeche oral tradition are reproduced...

...John M. Harris; Meave G. Leakey; Francis H. Brown Lake Turkana itself is a geologically recent phenomenon, but what is now the Lake Turkana basin has an archaeological record that stretches back 2.5 million years and a paleontological record that extends back to the Cretaceous Period. Vertebrate...

..., Kenya Colony. Zeitschrift für Vulkanologie 17 : 163 -72. Collins, Robert O. 1961 The Turkana Patrol, 1918. Uganda Journal 25 : 16 -33. Dyson-Hudson, Rada, and Neville Dyson-Hudson 1980 Nomadic Pastoralism. Annual Review of Anthropology 9 : 15 -61. Fuchs, V. E. 1934...

... an impact, for in future years several leaders approached officials carrying their flags and treaties. On the whole, relations with local peoples went reasonably well. Macdonald was impressed by the Karamojong, and Austin was also im- pressed by the fine physical appearance of the Turkana. However...

... A few years ago, several of us were sitting in the shade of the dining banda of Richard Leakey’s research station at Koobi Fora, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. We were listening to the oldest man there, Sir Vivian Fuchs. Sir Vivian, known as ‘‘Bunny had led an expedition to Lake Turkana...

... that the five phratries are an aggregate of some of the communities that live in the Lake Turkana region and beyond it. It describes the precolonial relationship of the Gabra and Borana, which is expressed by the latter in the idiom of kinship as a territorial one. American Society for Ethnohistory 2006...

... of the missionaries who have con- tributed to the foundation of the Catholic Church in northern Kenya over the last fifty years. During the colonial period, Christian missionary activity was generally for- bidden in northern Kenya, both east and west of Lake Turkana.1 The only exceptions were three Protestant...

... of Marsabit District . DC/NFD4/1/2, 11 March 1928, Kenya National Archive. Sobania, N. W. 1980 The Historical Tradition of the Peoples of the Eastern Lake Turkana Basin, c. 1840-1925. PhD diss. , University of London. Sobania, Neal 1988 Fishermen Herders: Subsistence Survival and Cultural Change...

...Pascal James Imperato Iconic geographic spaces come into being because they are unique and offer opportunities for self-challenge and accomplishment. Lake Rudolf (Lake Turkana) in East Africa has been such an iconic space during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial eras. While a number...