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49 places in the atlas, 4 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya on the continent of Africa.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Pastoral Neolithic · Pastoral Neolithic (Nderit/ Cushitic)
19 basalt pillar alignments (2400 BCE) claimed as oldest archaeoastronomy in sub-Saharan Africa: pillars aligned to stellar asterisms (Triangulum, Pleiades).
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Neolithic to Pastoral Iron Age (3500 BCE–700 CE) · Nderit fisher/foragers → Early Pastoral Elmenteitan
Turkana megalithic cairn cemetery Lothagam — 3.5 ka pastoral monumental graves west of lake.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Middle Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic (46,000–3000 BP) · MSA → LSA → Savanna Pastoral Neolithic
Mau Escarpment Twilight Cave Enkapune Ya Muto — 40,000-year-old ostrich eggshell beads at 2,400 m.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists
Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Kiongwe is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province. Lying on the shore of the Indian Ocean it serves as a popular coastal tourism centre.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (8000 BCE–1500 CE) · Kansyore fishers → Elmenteitan herders → Urewe Iron Age Bantu
Stratified river terrace Gogo Falls — Kansyore fisher sequence at Kuja rapids.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Pliocene–Pleistocene · Early hominids
Koobi Fora & Turkana Basin Hominid Sites in Marsabit County, Turkana, Kenya is a Pliocene–Pleistocene archaeological wonder attributed to Early hominids culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean · Homo erectus / early Homo
Open-air Acheulean handaxe factory of Homo erectus (1200–400 ka) with in-situ butchery of extinct giant baboon and hippo, with volcanic stratigraphy teaching hominin handaxe evolution from…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Pastoral Neolithic / Sirikwa · Elmenteitan / Sirikwa
Pastoral Neolithic–Sirikwa mound (1500 BCE to 1500 CE) atop tukana hill: stone-walled enclosures, 30-cairn necropolis with Elmenteitan obsidian blades, 20 crouched burials and Nderit ceramics.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
The Kapthurin Formation is a series of Middle Pleistocene sediments associated with the East African Rift Valley.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
The Hyrax Hill site was proclaimed a national monument in 1945 and opened to the public in 1965. This was as a result of startling discoveries of relics by Mrs.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Manda is an island of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, known for the prosperous 9th century ports of Takwa and Manda town.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Swahili (Middle to Late Swahili 1200–1650 CE) · Swahili (Arab-African Bantu + Shirazi myth; Mijikenda fringe)
Abandoned 3 km-walled Swahili coral city in coastal forest with Great Mosque, 45-room Palace with Ming porcelain insets and planned grid.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Late Iron Age (15th–19th c CE) · Luo (Bantu-Luo Nilotic) / Gusii
UNESCO Luo walled town Thimlich Ohinga — 4-m dry-stone walls enclosing hill settlement.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Ileret (also spelled Illeret) is a village in Marsabit County, Kenya. It is located in Northern Kenya, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, north of Sibiloi National Park and near the Ethiopian…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)
Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site. Geologically it forms part of the Enkorika Fissure Zone.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lake Turkana () is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, predominantly in northern Kenya; the far northern end crosses into Ethiopia.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Jumba la Mtwana is the site of historical structures and archaeological relics on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, lying close to the Mtwapa Creek, in Kilifi county, north of Mombasa.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Mambrui is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province, located east of Marikebuni along the Malindi-Garissa Road, south of Gongoni and north of Malindi.
