Date: Thursday, 8 September 2011
Venue: The National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Palaeontology Section Room A4
Location: Museum Hill Road
Time:11.00am -12.00pm
If you wish to attend, please register with marymuungu@gmail.com
Speaker: Dr Matt Davies, Fellow at the BIEA & McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge
Synopsis
Dr Matthew Davies, will talk about his archaeological and ethnohistorical research into intensive farming in the Pokot region of North West Kenya. To date his work has established a changing pattern of land use and settlement spanning the last 500 years and involving a shift from lithic using rockshelter inhabitants with only domestic sheep goat to more specialised forms of food production including the establishment of specialised cattle pastoralism and intensive irrigation agriculture.
Particular attention will be paid to the development of an extensive network of pre-colonial irrigation channels and the implications of this research to Kalenjin history.
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