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Alternative names | Elmenteitan Culture |
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Geographical range | Kenya, Africa |
Period | Neolithic |
Dates | c. 3300-1200 BP |
Type site | Gamble's Cave |
Major sites | Gamble's Cave, Ngamuriak, Gogo Falls, Njoro River Cave |
Preceded by | Later Stone Age peoples |
Followed by | Pastoral Iron Age peoples |
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The Elmenteitan culture was a prehistoric lithic industry and pottery tradition with a distinct pattern of land use, hunting and pastoralism that appeared and developed on the western plains of Kenya, East Africa during the Pastoral Neolithic c.3300-1200 BP.[1] It was named by archaeologist Louis Leakey after Lake Elmenteita (also Elementaita),[2] a soda lake located in the Great Rift Valley, about 120 km (75 mi) northwest of Nairobi.
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