Tufts Koobi Fora 2024
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Readings
Almagor, Uri. “The Social Organization of the Dassanetch of the Lower Omo.” Ph.D., The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 1971. PDF
Behnke, Roy H. “Grazing Into the Anthropocene or Back to the Future?” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2021). PDF
Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162, no. 3859 (December 13, 1968): 1243–48. PDF
Harris, John M., Meave G. Leakey, and Francis H. Brown. “A Brief History of Research at Koobi Fora, Northern Kenya.” Ethnohistory 53, no. 1 (2006): 35–69. PDF
Manzano, Pablo, Daniel Burgas, Luis Cadahía, Jussi T. Eronen, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Slimane Bencherif, Øystein Holand, et al. “Toward a Holistic Understanding of Pastoralism.” One Earth 4, no. 5 (May 2021): 651–65. PDF
Mbaluka, John Kimeu, and Francis H. Brown. “Vegetation of the Koobi Fora Region Northeast of Lake Turkana, Marsabit County, Northern Kenya.” Journal of East African Natural History 105, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 21-50–50. PDF
McCabe, J. Terrence. “Turkana Pastoralism: A Case against the Tragedy of the Commons.” Human Ecology 18, no. 1 (1990): 81–103. PDF
Muchiru, A. N., D. Western, and R. S. Reid. “The Impact of Abandoned Pastoral Settlements on Plant and Nutrient Succession in an African Savanna Ecosystem.” Journal of Arid Environments 73, no. 3 (March 1, 2009): 322–31. PDF
Opiyo, Francis, Oliver Wasonga, Moses Nyangito, Janpeter Schilling, and Richard Munang. “Drought Adaptation and Coping Strategies Among the Turkana Pastoralists of Northern Kenya.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 295–309. PDF
Porensky, Lauren M., and Kari E. Veblen. “Generation of Ecosystem Hotspots Using Short-Term Cattle Corrals in an African Savanna.” Rangeland Ecology & Management 68, no. 2 (March 1, 2015): 131–41. PDF
Reid, Robin S., and James E. Ellis. “Impacts of Pastoralists on Woodlands in South Turkana, Kenya: Livestock- Mediated Tree Recruitment.” Ecological Applications 5, no. 4 (1995): 978–92. PDF
Vuorio, Ville, Andrew Muchiru, Robin S. Reid, and Joseph O. Ogutu. “How Pastoralism Changes Savanna Vegetation: Impact of Old Pastoral Settlements on Plant Diversity and Abundance in South-Western Kenya.” Biodiversity and Conservation 23, no. 13 (December 1, 2014): 3219–40. PDF
Wright, David K., Steven L. Forman, Purity Kiura, Christopher Bloszies, and Amanuel Beyin. “Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya.” African Archaeological Review 32, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 335–67. PDF