Beyin thanks R. Leakey and L. Martine for the postdoctoral opportunity in the Turkana Basin Institute, which allowed him to develop this project. Fieldwork in West Turkana was generously funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (#8093), National Geographic Society (#9263-13), and the Turkana Basin Institute. University of Louisville provided funding for radiocarbon dating of nine samples. Beyin is grateful for the logistical support and guidance he received from E. Hildebrand and J. Shea. We extend our gratitude to the following staff of the National Museum of Kenya: Drs. I. Farah, P. Kiura, E. Mbua, and C. Ogola. We appreciate the assistance we received from M. and L. Leakey during field and laboratory works in the Turkana Basin. Thanks are due to TBI staff in Nairobi and at the Turkwel base, staff of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Chief J. Lolimo from Kalokol town, and field assistants J. Etabu, J. Ekusi, E. Ameso, and E. Lokwawi. The article has greatly benefited from comments from two anonymous reviewers, E. Hildebrand, D. Wright, and G. Stocks. We thank the editor, X. Yang, and journal managers, D. Barrett and K. Ridley for accommodating our multiple requests for resubmission-date extensions.
Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Lutz 228, Louisville, KY, United States; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, 437G Wimberly Hall, La Crosse, WI, United States; Geochronology Laboratory, Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Drive ChampaignIL, United States
Recommended Citation:
Beyin A.,Prendergast M.E.,Grillo K.M.,et al. New radiocarbon dates for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene settlements in West Turkana, northern Kenya[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2017-01-01,168