A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana – Tristan McConnell
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Lothagan Cemetery
Lothagam's history and the dawn of pastalism in the riff valley is now being uncovered by scientists eki. They excavated the burial chambers of what emerged as a communal cemetery, with remains of hundreds of women, children and men. The bodies were buried with intricate grave goods, ivory rings, perforated hippo tusks,. earrings and pendants fashioned from amazonite, zeolite and hemetite and seramics. There is no evidence of violence, and no way of telling who was chief, whos serf. It seems Lothagam was not a memorial to the rich and powerful, like the zigarats of
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