Abstract
STUDENTS of the later stages of African prehistory will welcome the publication of the detailed analytical study by Mrs. Mary Leakey of the iron-age pottery industry discovered by Archdeacon W. E. Owen in the Central Kavirondo of northwestern Kenya. Isolated discoveries of pottery with little, if any, apparent affinity to known cultural groups are too frequently merely stored and their publication held over for further evidence. Since modern and recent domestic pottery in tropical Africa often appears to differ so slightly in the details of shape, ingredients and decoration, it is precisely the exceptional elements, like the occurrence of the impressed dimple in this Kavirondo material and its unusual decorative motifs, that are likely to be of significance to workers in other parts of Africa. The excellent drawings by Mrs. Leakey, supported by eight pages of photographs, and the descriptive analysis will give the reader a, very accurate idea of the quality of this important pottery assemblage.
Dimple-Based Pottery from Central Kavirondo, Kenya Colony
By M. D. Leakey W. E. Owen L. S. B. Leakey. (Coryndon Memorial Museum Occasional Papers, No. 2.) Pp. 43. (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1948.) 5s. net.
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FAGG, B. Dimple-Based Pottery from Central Kavirondo, Kenya Colony. Nature 162, 834 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162834b0
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