Chesowanja

The Chesowanja sites lie to the east of Lake Baringo in Kenya. They give a Pleistocene sequence at intervals between 1.6 million years and recent times.  The geology was investigated by Bill Bishop, Andrew Hill, John Carney and Martin Pickford, and an archaeological expedition conducted by J.W.K. Harris and John Gowlett.

Publications

Gowlett, J.A.J.  1999. Lower and Middle Pleistocene archaeology of the Baringo Basin. In: Andrews, P. and Banham, P. (eds) Late Cenozoic environments and hominid evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society, London, pp 123-141. 

Harris, J.W.K., Gowlett, J.A.J., Blumenschine, R. and Maiers, J.E. 1983. Chesowanja - a summary of the early Pleistocene Archaeology. 9th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Kano.

Gowlett, J.A.J., Harris, J.W.K., Walton, D. and Wood, B.A. 1981. Early archaeological sites, hominid remains and traces of fire from Chesowanja, Kenya. Nature 294, 125-129.

Harris, J.W.K., Gowlett, J.A.J., Walton, D. and Wood, B.A. 1981. Palaeoanthropological studies at Chesowanja. In: Las industrias mas antiguas. Union internacional de ciencias prehistoricas y protohistoricas, X Congreso, Mexico D.F., 1981.

Harris, J.W.K. and Gowlett, J.A.J. 1980.  Evidence of early stone industries at Chesowanja, Kenya. In Leakey, R.E. and Ogot, B.A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi, 1977. TILLMIAP, Nairobi, pp 208-212.

Harris, J.W.K. and Gowlett, J.A.J. 1979. A preliminary report on Chesowanja.  Nyame Akuma 14, 22-27.