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SUMMARY:The African Humid Period: Human Socio-cultural Responses - a view 
 from the Turkana Basin\, East Africa - Dr Amanuel Beyin\, University of Lo
 uisville
DTSTART:20250310T130000Z
DTEND:20250310T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The final phase of the Pleistocene epoch in Africa was marked 
 by the onset of a climatic phenomenon called the African Humid Period (AHP
 )\, which lasted c. 15.0–5.5 kya. Emerging paleoclimatic studies demonst
 rate multiple climatic swings between humid episodes and dry spells throug
 hout this period. African hunter-gatherer communities of the time are know
 n to have exploited riverine and lacustrine habitats and others lived in l
 ush landscapes away from the waterbodies. For several decades\, Africanist
  archaeologists have sought to elucidate the adaptive strategies people de
 veloped to cope with the prevailing ecological conditions of the AHP and t
 he socio-cultural consequences of those adaptations. Based on the author
 ’s recent work in west Lake Turkana (northern Kenya)\, this lecture will
  discuss hunter-gatherer-fisher settlements dating to the AHP and associat
 ed adaptive behaviors. Lake Turkana is one of the East African lakes that 
 saw a marked expansion of their water-level during the AHP. This\, coupled
  with its sensitivity to fluctuations in precipitation\, makes it an ideal
  place to examine human adaptive responses during the ensuing and ending o
 f the AHP. Participants are asked to reflect on the feasibility of the pro
 position that human engagement with diverse shoreline settings during the 
 AHP may have facilitated cultural (and linguistic) diversification over ti
 me.\n\nTo attend the talk online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi
 n/19%3ap30TR_XT0paZImn_9u48xGmQW632DVb_5DPl6N-Bl7A1%40thread.tacv2/1737368
 351450?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2
 c%22Oid%22%3a%22fd6eb29a-becf-4b01-bc4b-963ba412d20f%22%7d \n\nMeeting ID:
  376 029 932 532\nPasscode: s8aJ3Qc7
LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
 arch
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