An Outport for Gedi?—Archaeological Survey in Mida Creek, Kenya

Autor: Caesar Bita, Wes Forsythe

Publikováno v: Heritage, Vol 6, Iss 12, Pp 7366-7380 (2023)

Communities of the East African coast have had a long history of international interaction. Swahili maritime networks linked African port towns across the Indian Ocean seaboard, thus enabling merchandise to reach the hinterlands of the continent. One

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/c72cabcb7d9d4d2f86ed1fac3742282c

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Autor: Ceri Shipton, Patrick Roberts, Will Archer, Simon J. Armitage, Caesar Bita, James Blinkhorn, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, Alison Crowther, Richard Curtis, Francesco d’ Errico, Katerina Douka, Patrick Faulkner, Huw S. Groucutt, Richard Helm, Andy I. R Herries, Severinus Jembe, Nikos Kourampas, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rob Marchant, Julio Mercader, Africa Pitarch Marti, Mary E. Prendergast, Ben Rowson, Amini Tengeza, Ruth Tibesasa, Tom S. White, Michael D. Petraglia, Nicole Boivin

Publikováno v: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)

Most of the archaeological record of the Middle to Later Stone Age transition comes from southern Africa. Here, Shipton et al. describe the new site Panga ya Saidi on the coast of Kenya that covers the last 78,000 years and shows gradual cultural and

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/6cd881326715453a85fcb3406a8e12e9

The Role of the National Museum in MUCH Management and Regional Capacity Building: Current Research in Kenya

Autor: Caesar Bita

Publikováno v: Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management on the Historic and Arabian Trade Routes ISBN: 9783030558369

Archaeology, corroborated by historical records has shown that the Kenyan coast, which is part of the Swahili coast, also referred to as Western Indian Ocean (WIO), was connected to ancient global trade networks. These early overseas contacts are evi

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55837-6_6

Ship engravings at Kilepwa, Mida Creek, Kenya

Autor: Edward Pollard, Caesar Bita

Publikováno v: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 52:173-191

With the archaeological survey of shipwrecks on the East African coast in its infancy, ship engravings are a source for maritime information for the medieval period. This paper reports on the discovery of engravings incised into the plaster of the in

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https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2017.1283096

Historical Period Stone Anchors from Mombasa, Kenya: Evidence of Overseas Maritime Trade Contacts with Asia and Middle East

Autor: Caesar Bita

Publikováno v: Volume: 2, Issue: 3 15-26
International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics
International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 15-26 (2015)

One of the characteristics of the East African Coast has been its accessibility. The sea has been a means of contact with the outside world. Over the last 2000 years, there has been an interpenetration of cultures to this region through trade consequ

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https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijegeo/issue/28166/303557