Gogo Falls

Gogo Falls is an archaeological site near a former and since 1956 dammed waterfall, located in the Lake Victoria Basin in Migori County, western Kenya.

[2] This site is important to archaeology as it includes some of the earliest appearances of artifacts and domestic animals in the area.

[5]: 69  The falls were a good place to collect fish because they offered easy access to those who resided in the area.

[5]: 65  Robertshaw and David Collett visited Gogo Falls in 1981, they found that some of the ground had been disturbed due to work on the local dam.

The date of an item could change based on how much sunlight that it receives and the chemical composition that is in its environment.

The stone Artifacts include obsidian, quartz, small microliths and modified blades of different sizes.

[6]: 73  In 1983, there were some bone artifacts found, including one possible harpoon, which would make it the first in the Lake Victoria Basin.

Based on evidence, Gogo Falls was a site for herding cattle, sheep and goats.

[7]: 8  People at Gogo Falls also hunted; bones of zebra, warthog, bush pig, and oribi were found at the site.

Gogo Falls helps archaeologists today because based on recent studies of stable isotopes of animal teeth, a path has been found that would have allowed people to travel to South Africa.

The stable isotopes also prove that the area had been covered in grasses for the last 2000 years due to the increase of rainfall in the later Holocene, the environment was ideal to have supported domestic animals.