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Cultural similarities across the central chiefdoms create unity, although differences emerge beyond the Weru Weru River and Mriti hills. Male Circumcision is common, and initiation rituals in the central zone involve tribal lore and secret symbols. Architectural styles vary, with distinct house designs east and west of the Weru Weru River. [12]
Between 8000 BP and 2000 BP, Saharan herders migrated into Eastern Africa, and brought along with them their monumental Saharan burial traditions. [14] Genetic evidence shows that lactase persistence developed in East African populations between 7000 BP and 3000 BP, which is consistent with existing evidence for the introduction of livestock. [15]
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The Savanna Pastoral Neolithic and the Elmenteitan material culture traditions are found in eastern Africa. Recent aDNA research has provided evidence for the spread of Pastoral Neolithic herders from eastern Africa into southern Africa. [61] [62]
The Nilotic people are people indigenous to South Sudan and East Africa who speak the Nilotic languages.They inhabit South Sudan and the Gambela Region of Ethiopia, while also being a large minority in Kenya, Uganda, the north eastern border area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania.
Seen to have developed out of the Elmenteitan culture of the East African Pastoral Neolithic c.3300-1200 BP, [17] the Sirikwa culture was followed in much of its area by the Kalenjin, Maa, western and central Kenyan communities of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The history of East Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and the post-colonial period, in which the current nations were formed. East Africa is the eastern region of Africa, bordered by North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Sahara Desert. Colonial ...