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Turkana County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Turkana is the largest and also the north-western most county in Kenya. It is bordered by the countries of Uganda to the west; South Sudan and Ethiopia, including the disputed Ilemi Triangle, to the north and northeast; and Lake Turkana to the east. To the south and east, neighbouring counties in Kenya are West Pokot, Baringo and Samburu Counties, while Marsabit County is located on the opposite (i.e. eastern) shore of Lake Turkana. ==History== Four sites of Stone Age cultures are situated upon tributaries along the west side of Lake Turkana in West Turkana; at Lokalalei, Kokiselei and Nadung, and became of interest to archaeology beginning sometime during 1988.〔B S Blades, B Adams - (Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies ) John Wiley & Sons, 12 May 2009 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 1405168374〕〔C R Ewen -(Artifacts ) Rowman Altamira, 1 Apr 2003 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 0759100225〕〔(secondary) D Waugh - Geography: An Integrated Approach ISBN 017444706X Retrieved 1994〕 The earliest late Stone age industries date to 12,000 b.p.〔C Ehret, M Posnansky - (The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History ) University of California Press, 1982 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 0520045939〕 Direct influence by colonial forces, in the form of pacification within the district began in 1900 and ended in 1918.〔T G Grenham - (The Unknown God: Religious And Theological Interculturation ) Peter Lang, 2005 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 3039102613〕 During 1926, the entire Turkana people were subjugated to a body of the British military who subsequently restricted their movements to an area of Kenya, forcing these to settle in the area known now as the Turkana County.〔S Williams - Ian Hodder (ed) - (The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings ) Cambridge University Press, 6 Aug 1987 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 0521329248〕〔Merriam-Webster dictionary online〕 During 1958, the district experienced an influx of a number of people classified as belonging to the Turkana people expelled from the Kenyan settlement Isiolo town to be forcibly relocated to the Turkana district by persons of the then British colonial administration.〔V Broch-Due, R A Schroeder - (Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa ) Nordic Africa Institute, 2000 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 9171064524〕 The district maintained an all but complete isolation from influences of any other countries peoples until the time during 1976 when road-blocks on entering the district were ceased.〔D McNeill, S D Duncan, J Cassell, E T Levy - (Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in Honor of David McNeill ) John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007 Retrieved 2012-07-08 ISBN 9027228418〕 The people of the north of the county were reported (2000) endangered by marauding Ethiopians and consequently forced to settle in southerly locations.〔(Traditional Occupations of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: Emerging Trends ) International Labour Organization, 2000 Retrieved 2012-07-08〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Turkana County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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