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Publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chritz, K., E. Sawchuk, M. Prendergast, S. Blumenthal, T. Cerling, J. Dunne, S. Goldstein, K. Grillo<\/strong>, A. Janzen, P. Kiura, J. Lee-Thorp, M. Lahr, F.F.K. Manthi, E. Ndiema, F. Odede, T. Plummer, J. Wainwright, and E. Hildebrand. 2026. Isotopic evidence for dietary variability among eastern Africa\u2019s first pastoralists. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/em>, 123(22): e2532741123. www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2532741123<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fennessey, B.M., S.N. Wemanya, A.Z.P. Mabulla, A.O. Gidna, M.E. Prendergast, and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2026. Detecting architectural features and stratigraphic deposits at a Pastoral Neolithic site using ground-penetrating radar. Journal of Archaeological Science<\/em> 191, 106573. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jas.2026.106573<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biagetti, S., A. Ruiz-Giralt, K.S. Rix, A. Koutroumpas, J. Iba\u00f1ez-Insa, C. Lancelotti, N. Garcia Tuset, C.E. Kerfant, K. Grillo<\/strong>, E. Hildebrand, J. Lonyala, M. Mvimi, S. Merlo, G. Lucarini, S. Lischi, and M. Madella. 2026. Developing geo-ethnoarchaeological methods for studying archaeological pastoral sites: the CAMP project. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory <\/em>33: 29. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10816-025-09759-9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ombori, T., D. Pirrie, M.R. Power, I. Skilling, A.O. Gidna, A.Z.P. Mabulla, P. Bushozi, M.E. Prendergast, and K. Grillo<\/strong>. <\/strong>2025. Automated SEM-EDS mineralogical characterisation of pottery from Luxmanda and Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports <\/em>67: 105369. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jasrep.2025.105369<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan, A. and K. Grillo. <\/strong>2023. How African pasts can inspire alternative responses to climate change: a creative writing experiment. African Archaeological Review<\/em>, 40,  507\u2013517. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10437-023-09543-8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klehm, C., M. Helper, E. Hildebrand, E. Ndiema, and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2023. Mineralogy and sourcing of a stone bead industry found in communal cemeteries associated with eastern Africa\u2019s earliest herders ca. 5000 BP. Journal of Field Archaeology, <\/em>48(6), <\/span>395\u2013414. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00934690.2023.2232703<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hildebrand, E.,<\/strong> Grillo, K.<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, 32<\/i>(12), 1373\u20131392. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/09596836221121766<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawchuk, <\/sup>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<\/strong>. <\/strong>2022. The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered. Antiquity, <\/em>96(390), 1460\u20131477. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2022.141<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitton, T., D. Contreras, A. Gidna, A. Mabulla, M. Prendergast, and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2022. Detecting and mapping the \u2018ephemeral\u2019: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Antiquity, <\/em>96(386), 298\u2013318. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2021.59<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K.<\/strong>, Z. McKeeby, and E. Hildebrand. 2022. \u201cNderit ware\u201d and the origins of pastoralist pottery in eastern Africa. Quaternary International. <\/em>608-609: 226-242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storozum, M., S. Goldstein, D. Contreras, A. Gidna, A. Mabulla, K. Grillo<\/strong>, and M. Prendergast. 2021. The influence of ancient herders on soil development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania. Catena<\/em>. 204: 105376.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prendergast, M., K. Grillo<\/strong>,, A. Gidna, and A. Mabulla. 2021. Project Gallery: Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania. Antiquity<\/em>. 95(380): e7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K.<\/strong>, 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<\/em>. 117(18): 9793-9799.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawchuk, E., S. Pfeiffer, C. Klehm, M. Cameron, A. Hill, A. Janzen, K. Grillo<\/strong>, and E. Hildebrand. 2019. The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences<\/em>. 11(11): 6221\u20136241. https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12520-019-00914-4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K.<\/strong>, and D. Contreras. 2019. Public archaeology\u2019s mammoth in the room: engaging Wikipedia as a tool for teaching and outreach. Advances in Archaeological Practice<\/em>. 7(4):435-442. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/aap.2019.8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rouse, L.M.,  K. Grillo<\/strong>, R. Piermartiri, E. Rotondaro, H. Cogo-Moreira, G.M. Bargossi, and B. Cerasetti. 2019. Not just \u201cnomadic jars\u201d: The ceramic assemblage from the later Bronze Age mobile pastoralist site of Ojakly, Murghab region, Turkmenistan. Archaeological Research in Asia<\/em>. 18:100-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Langley, M., M. Prendergast, and K. Grillo. <\/strong>2019. Organic technology in the Pastoral Neolithic: osseous and eggshell artefacts from Luxmanda, Tanzania. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences<\/em>. 11(1):1-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prendergast, M.E., A. Janzen, M. Buckley, and K. Grillo. <\/strong>Sorting the sheep from the goats in the Pastoral Neolithic: morphological and biomolecular approaches at Luxmanda, Tanzania. 2019. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences<\/em>. <\/strong>11(6):3047-3062.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hildebrand, E.A., K. Grillo<\/strong>, 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\u2019s earliest herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. 115(36):8942-8947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawchuk, E., S. Goldstein, K. Grillo<\/strong>, 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<\/em>. 51:187-205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunne, J., K. Grillo<\/strong>, 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<\/em>. 26:619-642.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K<\/strong>., 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<\/em> 43(2):102-120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Rom\u00e1n, C. Chiumia, A. Crowther, E. Gomani-Chindebvu, A.O. Gidna, K. Grillo<\/strong>, I.T. Helenius, G. Hellenthal, R. Helm, M. Horton, S. L\u00f3pez, 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. P\u00e4\u00e4bo, N. Patterson, A.G. Morris, N. Boivin, R. Pinhasi, J. Krause, D. Reich. 2017.  Reconstructing prehistoric African population structure. Cell<\/em> 171(1):59-71. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyin, A., M. Prendergast, K. Grillo<\/strong>, and H. Wong. 2017.  New radiocarbon dates for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene settlements in West Turkana, northern Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews <\/em>168:208-215. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright, D., K. Grillo<\/strong>, and R. Soper. 2016.  Stone cairns and material culture of the middle to late Holocene, Lake Turkana. Journal of African Archaeology <\/em>14(2):209-222.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashley C. and K. Grillo. <\/strong>2015.  Archaeological ceramics from eastern Africa: past approaches and future directions. 50th<\/sup> Anniversary special edition, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa <\/em>50(4):460-480.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K. <\/strong>2014.  Pastoralism and pottery use: an ethnoarchaeological study in Samburu, Kenya. African Archaeological Review <\/em>31(2):105-130. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prendergast, M., K. Grillo, <\/strong>A. Mabulla, and H. Wong. 2014.  New dates for Kansyore and Pastoral Neolithic ceramics in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology,<\/em> 12(1):89-98. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prendergast, M., A. Mabulla, K. Grillo<\/strong>, 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<\/em> 48(4):498-520.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K. <\/strong>and E. Hildebrand. <\/strong>2013.  The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c.<\/em> 5000-4000 BP. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa<\/em> 48(2):193-217.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hildebrand, E. and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2012.  Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa: new radiocarbon dates. Antiquity <\/em>86(332):338-352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hildebrand, E., J. Shea, and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2011.  Four Middle Holocene pillar sites in West Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Field Archaeology<\/em> 36(3):181-200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K. <\/strong>2024. Homes on the range: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on pastoralists\u2019 household material culture in eastern Africa. In Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives<\/em>, J.-L. Houle, ed. Berghahn Books, pp. 91-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hildebrand, E. and K. Grillo<\/strong>. 2022. Pastoral Neolithic \u201cpillar sites\u201d of northwestern Kenya. In Megaliths of the World \/ M\u00e9galithes dans le monde<\/em>, L. Laporte and J.-M. Large, eds. Archaeopress \/ Editions Chauvinoises<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K. <\/strong>2014.  <\/strong>El pastoreo en \u00c1frica oriental (Pastoralism in eastern Africa). in La Cuna de la Humanidad (The Cradle of Humankind)<\/em>, official publication of the Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico Regional (Regional Archaeological Museum) at Olduvai, Tanzania, pp. 221-229, 305-307.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshall, F., K. Grillo<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, edited by N. Miller, K. Moore, and K. Ryan, pp. 39-74. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Series. Penn Press, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book Reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K.<\/strong> 2019.  Book Review, The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area. <\/em>(T. Clack and M. Brittain, eds.), for African Archaeological Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grillo, K.<\/strong> 2014.  Book Review, Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future<\/em> (M. Bollig, M. Schnegg, and H.-P. Wotzka, eds.), for Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.<\/em>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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