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Accepted Paper:
The Middle Stone Age of the Baringo Basin in Context
Laura Basell
(University of Leicester)
The Baringo basin has played a critical role in understanding human evolution and long term palaeoenvrionmental change in eastern Africa. This paper considers the Baringo Basin in its regional archaeological and palaeoenvironmental contexts.
Paper long abstract:
The Baringo basin has played a critical role in our understanding of human evolution and long term palaeoenvrionmental change in eastern Africa. Its sites have been important in establishing and maintaining the significance of the region in key debates concerned with the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens. This paper considers the Baringo Basin in its broader regional archaeological and palaeoenvironmental contexts. It also considers what implications recent discoveries (which have shifted the timing and location for the emergence of the first Homo sapiens) have for interpreting hominin MSA behavioural variability in eastern Africa.