Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations. The Lake Victoria Basin of eastern Africa was likely an important crossroads in this process, hosting interactions between diverse populations with hunter-gatherer, mobile pastoralist, and farming lifeways in the Holocene. Recent discovery of a large assemblage of ancient domesticated plant remains at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Chelelemuk Hills of Busia County, western Kenya have provided new insights into the timing for when different domesticated crops were adopted within this key region. Here, we expand on the archaeological and cultural context for these findings by reporting results of field excavations, regional su

SUBMITTER: Goldstein ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12367187 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature