Later Stone Age (LSA) hunter-gatherers in the northeastern Lake Victoria Basin are key for understanding human-environment relationships, societal diversity and inter-group interactions in Holocene East Africa. Scholars have linked increasingly seasonal fishing and land-use strategies, the adoption of domesticated animals and a reliance on ‘Kansyore’ style pottery to delayed-return economic systems at sites in western Kenya and eastern Uganda c. 9–2000 years ago (kya). However, sparse dataset...