During the Early and Middle Holocene, large areas of today’s arid regions in North and East Africa were populated by fisher-hunter-gatherer communities who heavily relied on aquatic resources. In North Africa, Wavy Line pottery and harpoons are their most salient diagnostic features. Similar finds have also been made at sites in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region in East Africa but a clear classification of the pottery was previously not available. In order to elucidate the cultural connections between Lake Turkana’s first potters and North African groups, the pottery of the Koobi Fora region that was excavated by John Barthelme in the 1970/80s was re-assessed in detail. It was compared and contrasted – on a regional scale – with pottery from Lowasera and sites near Lothagam (Zu4, Zu6) and – on a supra-regional scale – with the pottery of the Central Nile Valley and eastern Sahara. The analyses reveal some significant points: Firstly, the early fisher pottery of Lake Turkana is clearly typologically affiliated with the Early Khartoum pottery and was thus part of the Wavy Line complex. Secondly, certain typological features of the Turkana assemblages, which include only a few Dotted Wavy Line patterns, tentatively hint to a date at least in the 7th millennium bp or earlier. Thirdly, the pottery features suggest that the East African fisher-hunter-gatherers adopted pottery from Northeast Africa.

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肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖的中期全新世渔猎采集者及其与北方的文化联系：陶器

在全新世早期和中期，当今北非和东非干旱地区的大片地区居住着严重依赖水生资源的渔猎采集者社区。在北非，波浪线陶器和鱼叉是他们最显着的诊断特征。在东非肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖地区的遗址中也有类似的发现，但以前没有明确的陶器分类。为了阐明图尔卡纳湖的第一批陶艺家与北非群体之间的文化联系，对约翰·巴塞尔姆在 1970/80 年代挖掘的 Koobi Fora 地区的陶器进行了详细的重新评估。它在区域范围内与来自洛瓦塞拉的陶器和 Lothagam (Zu4, Zu6) 和 - 在超区域范围内 - 与中央尼罗河谷和东撒哈拉的陶器。分析揭示了一些重要的观点：首先，图尔卡纳湖的早期渔民陶器在类型上与早期喀土穆陶器明显相关，因此是波浪线复合体的一部分。其次，图尔卡纳组合的某些类型学特征，其中仅包括一些虚线波浪线图案，暂时暗示至少在第 7 个千年 bp 或更早的日期。第三，陶器特征表明东非渔猎采集者采用了来自非洲东北部的陶器。其次，图尔卡纳组合的某些类型学特征，其中仅包括一些虚线波浪线图案，暂时暗示至少在第 7 个千年 bp 或更早的日期。第三，陶器特征表明东非渔猎采集者采用了来自非洲东北部的陶器。其次，图尔卡纳组合的某些类型学特征，其中仅包括一些虚线波浪线图案，暂时暗示至少在第 7 个千年 bp 或更早的日期。第三，陶器特征表明东非渔猎采集者采用了来自非洲东北部的陶器。