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CATEGORIES:African Archaeology Group Seminar Series
SUMMARY:The African Humid Period: Human Socio-cultural Res
 ponses - a view from the Turkana Basin\, East Afri
 ca - Dr Amanuel Beyin\, University of Louisville
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/226957
DESCRIPTION:The final phase of the Pleistocene epoch in Africa
  was marked by the onset of a climatic phenomenon 
 called the African Humid Period (AHP)\, which last
 ed c. 15.0–5.5 kya. Emerging paleoclimatic studies
  demonstrate multiple climatic swings between humi
 d episodes and dry spells throughout this period. 
 African hunter-gatherer communities of the time ar
 e known to have exploited riverine and lacustrine 
 habitats and others lived in lush landscapes away 
 from the waterbodies. For several decades\, Africa
 nist archaeologists have sought to elucidate the a
 daptive strategies people developed to cope with t
 he prevailing ecological conditions of the AHP and
  the socio-cultural consequences of those adaptati
 ons. Based on the author’s recent work in west Lak
 e Turkana (northern Kenya)\, this lecture will dis
 cuss hunter-gatherer-fisher settlements dating to 
 the AHP and associated adaptive behaviors. Lake Tu
 rkana is one of the East African lakes that saw a 
 marked expansion of their water-level during the A
 HP. This\, coupled with its sensitivity to fluctua
 tions in precipitation\, makes it an ideal place t
 o examine human adaptive responses during the ensu
 ing and ending of the AHP. Participants are asked 
 to reflect on the feasibility of the proposition t
 hat human engagement with diverse shoreline settin
 gs during the AHP may have facilitated cultural (a
 nd linguistic) diversification over time.\n\nTo at
 tend the talk online: https://teams.microsoft.com/
 l/meetup-join/19%3ap30TR_XT0paZImn_9u48xGmQW632DVb
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 963ba412d20f%22%7d \n\nMeeting ID: 376 029 932 532
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LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Arch
 aeological Research
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