Excavations at Njoro, Kenya

Abstract

DURING the latter part of April and the beginning of May, preliminary excavations were carried out at a small rock-shelter in the forest near Njoro, Kenya Colony, and as a result, a new branch of the local neolithic stone-bowl culture was discovered presenting certain interesting features. This small rock-shelter had been used during the neolithic period not as a living site but as a place for disposal of the dead by incineration, and the particular method which was used in burning the bodies resulted in the preservation of a number of objects not usually found in stone-age sites, owing to their perishable nature.