East African coastal caves

This project explores caves and rockshelters on the east African coast to determine trajectories of culture change.

Fieldwork exploring East African caves and rockshelters

Related outputs

  • Goldstein, S., Shipton, C., Miller, J., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. (2022) Hunter-gatherer technological organization and responses to Holocene climate change in coastal, lakeshore, and grassland ecologies of eastern Africa.  Quaternary Science Reviews 280: 107390
  • Faulkner, P., Miller, J., Quintana-Morales, E., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. (2021) 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa.  PLOS One 16: e0256761
  • Culley, C., Janzen, A., Brown, S., Prendergast, M.E., Wolfhagen, J., Abderemane, B., Abdallah, K.A., Haji, O., Horton, M.C., Shipton, C., Swift, J., Tabibou, A.T., Wright, H.T., Boivin, N., Crowther, A. (2021) Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island eastern Africa.  Royal Society Open Science 8: 202341
  • Martinon-Torres, M., d’Errico, F., Santos, E., Alvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S.J., Arsuaga J.L., Bermudez de Castro, J.M., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Duberne, S., Faulkner, P., Fernandez-Colon, P., Kourampas, N., Gonzalez Garcia, J., Larreina, D., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., MacLeod, G., Martin-Frances, L., Massilani, D., Mercader, J., Miller, J., Ndiema, E., Notario, B., Pitarch Marti, A., Prendergast, M.E., Queffelec, A., Riguad, S., Roberts, P., Shoaee, M.J., Shipton, C., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. (2021) Earliest human burial in Africa.  Nature 593: 95-100
  • Culley, C., Janzen, A., Brown, S., Prendergast, M.E., Shipton, C., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Crowther, C. (2021) Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya.  Journal of Archaeological Science 130: 105368
  • Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Archer, W., Kourampas, N., Roberts, P., Prendergast, M., Curtis, R., Herries, A.I.R., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. (2021) The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of East Africa.  Journal of Human Evolution 153: 102954
  • d’Errico, F., Pitarch Marti, A., Shipton, C., Le Vraux, E., Petraglia, M.D., Boivin, N.  (2020) Trajectories of Middle to Later Stone Age cultural innovation in eastern Africa: personal ornaments, bone artifacts and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya.  Journal of Human Evolution 141: 102737
  • Roberts, P., Prendergast, M., Janzen, A., Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Zech, J., Crowther, A., Sawchuk, E., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N. (2020) Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 537: 109438
  • Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Haji, O., Ali, A.K., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Horton, M.C., Boivin, N.L. (2019) Long-term trends in terrestrial and marine invertebrate exploitation on the Eastern African Coast: Insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar.  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 14: 479-514
  • Shipton, C., Roberts, P., Archer, W., Armitage, S., Bita, C., Blinkhorn, J., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Crowther, A., Curtis, R., d’Errico, F., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., Groucutt, H.S., Helm, R., Herries, A.I.R., Jembe, S., Kourampas, N., Lee-Thorp, J., Marchant, R., Mercader, J., Pitarch Marti, A., Prendergast, M., Rowson, B., Tengeza, A., Tibesasa, R., White, T.S., Petraglia, M.D., Boivin, N.  78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest (2018) Nature Communications 9: 1832
  • Skoglund, P., Thompson, J., Prendergast, M.E., Mittnik, A., Sirak, K., Hajdinjak, M., Salie, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Peltzer, A., Heinze, A.,  Olade, I., Ferry, M., Harney, E., Michel, M., Stewardson, K., Cerezo-Roman, J.,  Chiumia, C., Crowther, A., Gomani-Chindebvu, E., Gidna, A.O., Grillo, K.M., Hellenthal, G., Helm, R., Horton, M., Lopez, S., Mabulla, A.Z.P., Parkington, J., Prendergast, M.E., Ramesar, R., Shipton, C., Tibesasa, R., Welling, M., Hayes, V., Kennet, D.J., Ramesar, R., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Patterson, N., Morris, A., Boivin, N., Pinhasi, R., Krause, J., Reich, D.  (2017) Reconstructing African prehistoric population structure.  Cell 171: 59-71
  • Prendergast, M.E., Buckley, M., Crowther, A., Eager, H., Frantz, L., Lebrasseur, O., Hutterer, R., Hulme-Beaman, A., Van Neer, W., Douka, K., Veall, M-A., Quintana Morales, E.M., Schuenemann, V.J., Reiter, E., Allen, R., Helm, R., Shipton, C., Mwebi, O., Denys, C., Horton, M., Wynne-Jones, S., Fleisher, J., Radimilahy, C., Wright, H., Searle, J.B., Krause, J., Larson, G., Boivin, N.L. (2017) Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets.  PLOS One 12: e0182565

Funding

  • Max Planck Society

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Project Leader

  • Ceri Shipton (UCL)

Project Partners

  • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
  • National Museum of Kenya

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