Archaeological Sites in the Chyulu Hills, Kenya
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
- Vol. 11 (1) , 83-116
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00672707609511232
Abstract
Robert Soper was Assistant Director of the British Institute until 1972 and is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The article describes a complex of trackways, mounds and occupation sites in the Chyulu Hills of southern Kenya, dated probably to the fifteenth or sixteenth century A.D. The sites are described and comparisons made with Iron Age material from the surrounding areas and relevant ethnographic and historical accounts. It is tentatively concluded that the remains may be attributed to a population ancestral to the Kamba people who currently occupy the area to the north and north-west.Keywords
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