Namoratung’a

  The archaeological site at Namoratung’a in Northern Kenya lends itself to interdisciplinary research as it has archaeological deposit, skeletal remains, rock engravings and possible connections with the local Turkana community. Archaeologists working at the site in the 1970s argued that this was the burial and engraving site of an Eastern cushitic pastoralist people. Whilst noting that the local Turkana recognised many of the engraved motifs as their own livestock brands, they dismissed a connection between the site and the Turkana. This paper reports on results of our first field season and explores the question of the authorship, antiquity and the meaning of the burials and engravings at Namoratunga, Lokori.