Kenyan herders lived peacefully with no social segregation, a grave aged 5000 years old discovered in Kenya revealed. The gravesite, located near Lake Turkana revealed that everything people thought about ancient herders in terms of social life could be wrong. Known as Lothagam North pillar site, the communal cemetery is said to have been built and used over several centuries between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. “When agrarian societies started to develop, hierarchies started to develop too. Some people became more powerful and disparities in wealth and health and social circumstances emerged.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 22, 2018 06:33 UTC