An East African Pastoral Neolithic culture of the Rift Valley, distinguished by a blade-based stone industry, distinctive pottery, and cattle-herding practices along the western plains of Kenya.
The Elmenteitan culture (c. 3300–1200 BP, roughly 1300 BCE to 750 CE) in the East African Rift Valley gradually gave way to other Pastoral Neolithic traditions and later Pastoral Iron Age communities; it did not end through conquest but through population movements and cultural replacement over several centuries.
Covers the East African Pastoral Neolithic cultures including Elmenteitan.
Synthesises East African Pastoral Neolithic prehistory through c.500 BC, the framework for Rift Valley cattle-herding cultures such as the Elmenteitan.