Archaeological culture · c. 3000 BCE – 700 CE
Pastoral Neolithic of eastern Africa
The first herders of eastern Africa. Around 3000 BCE cattle, sheep and goat herders arrived around Lake Turkana and built monumental cemeteries such as the Lothagam North Pillar Site.
Later herders, including the Savanna Pastoral Neolithic peoples with their stone bowls and burial cairns, spread through the Rift Valley of Kenya and northern Tanzania.
See Pastoral Neolithic of eastern Africa on the map in 1000 BCE
- On the map
- 3000 BCE – 700 CE
How we know
No writing existed; known from animal bones, stone bowls, pottery and burial monuments, dated by radiocarbon.
Sites
- Lothagam North Pillar Site c. 3000–2300 BCE