Journal Articles
Logan, A. and K. Grillo. 2023. How African pasts can inspire alternative responses to climate change: a creative writing experiment. African Archaeological Review, 40, 507–517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09543-8
Klehm, C., M. Helper, E. Hildebrand, E. Ndiema, and K. Grillo. 2023. Mineralogy and sourcing of a stone bead industry found in communal cemeteries associated with eastern Africa’s earliest herders ca. 5000 BP. Journal of Field Archaeology, 48(6), 395–414. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2023.2232703
Hildebrand, E., Grillo, K., Chritz, K., Fischer, M., Goldstein, S., Janzen, A., Junginger, A., Kinyanjui, R., Ndiema, E., Sawchuk, E., Beyin, A., and S. Pfeiffer. 2022. Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period. The Holocene, 32(12), 1373–1392. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221121766
Sawchuk, E. A., E. A. Hildebrand, A. C. Hill, D. A. Contreras, J. E. Edung, A. Janzen, A. Kurewa, J. Munene, E. Ndiema, and K. Grillo. 2022. The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered. Antiquity, 96(390), 1460–1477. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.141
Fitton, T., D. Contreras, A. Gidna, A. Mabulla, M. Prendergast, and K. Grillo. 2022. Detecting and mapping the ‘ephemeral’: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Antiquity, 96(386), 298–318. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.59
Grillo, K., Z. McKeeby, and E. Hildebrand. 2022. “Nderit ware” and the origins of pastoralist pottery in eastern Africa. Quaternary International. 608-609: 226-242.
Storozum, M., S. Goldstein, D. Contreras, A. Gidna, A. Mabulla, K. Grillo, and M. Prendergast. 2021. The influence of ancient herders on soil development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania. Catena. 204: 105376.
Prendergast, M., K. Grillo,, A. Gidna, and A. Mabulla. 2021. Project Gallery: Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Antiquity. 95(380): e7.
Grillo, K., J. Dunne, F. Marshall, M. Prendergast, E. Casanova, A. Gidna, A. Janzen, Karega-Munene, J. Keute, A. Mabulla, P. Robertshaw, T. Gillard, C. Walton-Doyle, H. Whelton, K. Ryan, and R. Evershed. 2020. Molecular and isotopic evidence for milk, meat, and plants in prehistoric eastern African herder food systems. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(18): 9793-9799.
Sawchuk, E., S. Pfeiffer, C. Klehm, M. Cameron, A. Hill, A. Janzen, K. Grillo, and E. Hildebrand. 2019. The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11(11): 6221–6241. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-019-00914-4
Grillo, K., and D. Contreras. 2019. Public archaeology’s mammoth in the room: engaging Wikipedia as a tool for teaching and outreach. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 7(4):435-442. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2019.8
Rouse, L.M., K. Grillo, R. Piermartiri, E. Rotondaro, H. Cogo-Moreira, G.M. Bargossi, and B. Cerasetti. 2019. Not just “nomadic jars”: The ceramic assemblage from the later Bronze Age mobile pastoralist site of Ojakly, Murghab region, Turkmenistan. Archaeological Research in Asia. 18:100-119.
Langley, M., M. Prendergast, and K. Grillo. 2019. Organic technology in the Pastoral Neolithic: osseous and eggshell artefacts from Luxmanda, Tanzania. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11(1):1-14.
Prendergast, M.E., A. Janzen, M. Buckley, and K. Grillo. Sorting the sheep from the goats in the Pastoral Neolithic: morphological and biomolecular approaches at Luxmanda, Tanzania. 2019. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11(6):3047-3062.
Hildebrand, E.A., K. Grillo, E. Sawchuk, S. Pfeiffer, L. Conyers, S.T. Goldstein, A.C. Hill, A. Janzen, C. Klehm, M. Helper, P. Kiura, E. Ndiema, C. Ngugi, J. Shea, H. Wang. 2018. A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s earliest herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(36):8942-8947.
Sawchuk, E., S. Goldstein, K. Grillo, and E. Hildebrand. 2018. Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 51:187-205.
Dunne, J., K. Grillo, E. Casanova, H. Whelton, and R. Evershed. 2018. Pastoralist foodways recorded in organic residues from pottery vessels of modern communities in Samburu, Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 26:619-642.
Grillo, K., M. Prendergast, D. Contreras, T. Fitton, A. Gidna, S. Goldstein, M. Knisley, M. Langley, A. Mabulla. 2018. Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Journal of Field Archaeology 43(2):102-120.
Skoglund, P., J.C. Thompson, M.E. Prendergast, A. Mittnik, K. Sirak, M. Hajdinjak, T. Salie, N. Rohland, S. Mallick, A. Peltzer, A. Heinze, I. Olalde, M. Ferry, E. Harney, M. Michel, K. Stewardson, J.I. Cerezo-Román, C. Chiumia, A. Crowther, E. Gomani-Chindebvu, A.O. Gidna, K. Grillo, I.T. Helenius, G. Hellenthal, R. Helm, M. Horton, S. López, A.Z.P. Mabulla, J. Parkington, C. Shipton, M.G. Thomas, R. Tibesasa, M. Welling, V.M. Hayes, D.J. Kennett, R. Ramesar, M. Meyer, S. Pääbo, N. Patterson, A.G. Morris, N. Boivin, R. Pinhasi, J. Krause, D. Reich. 2017. Reconstructing prehistoric African population structure. Cell 171(1):59-71.
Beyin, A., M. Prendergast, K. Grillo, and H. Wong. 2017. New radiocarbon dates for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene settlements in West Turkana, northern Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews 168:208-215.
Wright, D., K. Grillo, and R. Soper. 2016. Stone cairns and material culture of the middle to late Holocene, Lake Turkana. Journal of African Archaeology 14(2):209-222.
Ashley C. and K. Grillo. 2015. Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: past approaches and future directions. 50th Anniversary special edition, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50(4):460-480.
Grillo, K. 2014. Pastoralism and pottery use: an ethnoarchaeological study in Samburu, Kenya. African Archaeological Review 31(2):105-130.
Prendergast, M., K. Grillo, A. Mabulla, and H. Wong. 2014. New dates for Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic ceramics in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology, 12(1):89-98.
Prendergast, M., A. Mabulla, K. Grillo, L. Broderick, A. Gidna, O. Seitsonen, and D. Gifford-Gonzalez. 2013. Pastoral Neolithic sites on the southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48(4):498-520.
Grillo, K. and E. Hildebrand. 2013. The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c. 5000-4000 BP. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 48(2):193-217.
Hildebrand, E. and K. Grillo. 2012. Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa: new radiocarbon dates. Antiquity 86(332):338-352.
Hildebrand, E., J. Shea, and K. Grillo. 2011. Four Middle Holocene pillar sites in West Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Field Archaeology 36(3):181-200.
Book Chapters
Hildebrand, E. and K. Grillo. 2022. Pastoral Neolithic “pillar sites” of northwestern Kenya. In Megaliths of the World / Mégalithes dans le monde, L. Laporte and J.-M. Large, eds. Archaeopress / Editions Chauvinoises.
Grillo, K. 2014. El pastoreo en África oriental (Pastoralism in eastern Africa). in La Cuna de la Humanidad (The Cradle of Humankind), official publication of the Museo Arqueológico Regional (Regional Archaeological Museum) at Olduvai, Tanzania, pp. 221-229, 305-307.
Marshall, F., K. Grillo, and L. Arco. 2011. Prehistoric pastoralists and social responses to climatic risk in East Africa. In Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-changing Environment, edited by N. Miller, K. Moore, and K. Ryan, pp. 39-74. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Series. Penn Press, Philadelphia.
Book Reviews
Grillo, K. 2019. Book Review, The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area. (T. Clack and M. Brittain, eds.), for African Archaeological Review.
Grillo, K. 2014. Book Review, Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future (M. Bollig, M. Schnegg, and H.-P. Wotzka, eds.), for Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.