Sample name: Wadh Lang'o (Elmenteitan)

Reference: P. Lane, C. Ashley, O. Seitsonen, P. Harvey, S. Mire, and F. Odede. 2007. The transition to farming in eastern Africa: New faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya. Antiquity 81:62-81 [ER 3703]

Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation, settlement

Archaeology: ceramics, hearths, stone tools

Habitat comments: "The Wadh Lang’o site contains a well-stratified sequence of deposits extending back at least to the pre-ceramic Late Stone Age, with successive layers of Kansyore, Elmenteitan, Urewe, post-Urewe Middle Iron Age (MIA) wares, and historic Luo material, in each case associated with well preserved faunal assemblages".
The middle layers consist of three major ashy deposits containing a series of isolated lenses of burning (suggestive of temporary hearths) and are principally associated with Elmenteitan ceramics of the Pastoral Neolithic tradition".
In addition to ceramics, various stone tools including cores, microliths, scrapers and blades were also present. Predominantly shallow slice marks were observed on some bone fragments, along with evidence of burning.

Life forms: carnivores, primates, ungulates, birds, fishes

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 3009 specimens

Years: 2000-2004

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "During initial investigation, eight test-pits, mostly 1 × 1m, were excavated at various localities across the site".
In June and July 2001, a 5 × 5m trench was excavated a few metres upslope from Trench 5, and in 2004, a further two 2 × 2m test pits to the south-west and south-east of the main 2001 excavation were dug.
"All deposits were dry sieved through 5mm mesh sieves".

Sample no: 3909

Contributor no: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2022-03-03 13:51:15

Modified: 2023-05-01 00:27:11