Archaeology of Eastern Africa

alkaline lake on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya

River in Ethiopia

extinct hominid

fossilized skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis

kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist

archaeological site in Tanzania

The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry during the early Lower Paleolithic spanning the late Pliocene and the first half of the Early Pleistocene. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping one, or a few, flakes off a stone using another stone. Oldowan tools were used during a period spanning from 2.9 million years ago up until at least 1.7 million years ago (Ma), by ancient hominins (early humans) across much of Africa. This technological industry was followed by the more sophisticated Acheulean industry (two sites associated with Homo erectus

Sanag (, ) is an administrative region (gobol) in north eastern Somaliland. Sanaag has a long coastline facing the Gulf of Aden to the north, and is bordered by the region of Sahil to the west, Sool to the south and Somalia to the east. The region is disputed by the self-declared Somaliland and Puntland, a state of Somalia.

cave in Tanzania

ruins of a stone town in Tanzania

forest in Kenya

homo erectus fossil found in Kenya in 1984

4th-century phonolite stele in Axum, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group

national park in Zimbabwe

archaeological site in Kenya

island of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya

Kenyan archipelago in the Indian Ocean

Kenyan archeological site

culture of the Swahili people in Africa

Homo sapiens fossils

stele in Aksum, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, in present-day Ethiopia

monumental stele in Axum, Ethiopia

The Sangoan is a prehistoric lithic industry of sub-Saharan Africa, broadly dated to the later part of the Early Stone Age (ESA) and the transition to the Middle Stone Age (MSA), approximately between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago. First identified in the 1920s at Sango Bay in Uganda, the industry is characterized by heavy-duty core tools such as picks, core axes, choppers, and scrapers, often produced on large cobbles or blocks of coarse-grained stone. These minimally shaped tools were likely used for woodworking, digging, or other subsistence tasks.

hominin fossil

archaeological culture

UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

hominin fossil

Engaruka is an abandoned system of ruins located in northwest Monduli District in central Arusha Region. The site is in geographical range of the Great Rift Valley of northern Tanzania. Situated in the Monduli District, it is famed for its irrigation and cultivation structures. It is considered one of the most important Iron Age archaeological sites in Tanzania. The site is located in the ward of Engaruka. The site is registered as one of the National Historic Sites of Tanzania.

13000 BCE East African tool assemblage

The Elmenteitan culture was a prehistoric lithic industry and pottery tradition with a distinct pattern of land use, hunting and pastoralism that appeared and developed on the western plains of Kenya, East Africa during the Pastoral Neolithic c.3300-1200 BP. It was named by archaeologist Louis Leakey after Lake Elmenteita (also Elementaita), a soda lake located in the Great Rift Valley, about northwest of Nairobi.

national monument of Kenya

type of fortified royal complex found throughout the highlands of Madagascar