Kalokol Pillar Site
Location | Lake Turkana, Kenya |
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Region | kangatotha ward |
Coordinates | 3°25′22″N 35°48′10″E / 3.422778°N 35.802778°E |
History of Kenya |
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The Nasura Pillar Site, registered as GcJh3 and also known as Namoratunga II, is an archaeological site on the west side of Lake Turkana in Kenya dating to the Pastoral Neolithic. Namoratunga means "people of stone" in the Turkana language. The site was originally believed to have been created around 300 BC, but recent excavations have yielded an older radiocarbon sample dating to 2398 +/- 44 years BC.[1]
Background
The site is located 50 Kilometres off the Lodwar – Kalokol highway, an it is easily visible on 30 metres (98 ft) from the road. The Kalokol Pillar Site contains 19 basalt pillars which are surrounded by a circular formation of stones. A number of other pillar sites surround Lake Turkana as well and date to the same time period;
Archaeologists Mark Lynch and L.H. Robbins described the Kalokol Pillar Site in 1978 and identified it as a possible
Further reading
- Doyle, L.R. (1986). "The Borana Calendar Reinterpreted". Current Anthropology. 27 (3): 286–287. S2CID 144426218.
- Doyle, L.R.; Frank, E.W. (1997). H. Selin (ed.). "Astronomy of Africa". Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Kluwer, Netherlands: 96–99.
See also
References
- ^ S2CID 54739651.
- PMID 30127016.
- ^ 2°23′0.04″N 36°8′2.52″E / 2.3833444°N 36.1340333°E
- Bibcode:1982Obs...102..210K.
- ISBN 978-0-7923-4066-9.
- ISBN 978-0-486-42882-6.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (20 August 2018). "Ancient Cemetery Packed With Hundreds of Bodies Discovered in Kenya".
- S2CID 31531630.
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