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Results of Kenyan Dig Suggest Africa’s First Toolmakers Were Not Human
... series of excavations at a site near Lake Victoria in Kenya unearthed a collection of Oldowan stone tools that are ... series of excavations at a site near Lake Victoria in Kenya unearthed a collection of Oldowan stone tools that are ... no fossilized remnants of human ancestors at the site in Kenya. What they discovered instead were two huge molars that ...
Nathan Falde - 10/02/2023 - 21:56
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Olorgesailie Prehistoric site, Kenya: A Factory of Tools With 1.2 Million Years of History
Kenya is a beautiful land, famous for its abundant wildlife ... and that it was home to many of our early ancestors. Kenya is a beautiful land, famous for its abundant wildlife ... Valley which is a large geological trench that traverses Kenya. It is located between two extinct volcanoes and named ...
Ed Whelan - 10/02/2019 - 22:57
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Yale Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Mancala Game Boards in Kenya's Highlands
... is an ancient "arcade" of Mancala game boards in central Kenya In a remarkable fusion of local knowledge and academic ... is an ancient "arcade" of Mancala game boards in central Kenya, revealing a new layer of human history in the region. ... Earliest Human Burial! Ancient Cave Art at Mfangano Island Kenya, Revered For Generations Burial mounds at the research ...
Gary Manners - 03/02/2024 - 16:48
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Ancient Cave Art at Mfangano Island Kenya, Revered For Generations
Mfangano Island in Kenya’s Lake Victoria hosts some ancient rock art that is ... a culture long gone but still revered. Mfangano Island in Kenya’s Lake Victoria hosts some ancient rock art that is ... planet. Its coastline is shared by Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. Mfangano Island, which covers an area of 65 square ...
Avi Kumar - 19/09/2023 - 14:54
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Kenyan Cave Child Grave Declared Africa’s Earliest Human Burial!
... in a cave. Now, researchers say that child’s grave in Kenya is the earliest known example of a deliberate human ... Human History (Jena, Germany) and the National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi) began their excavations at Panga ya Saidi in ... on-site. Dr. Emmanuel Ndiema of the National Museums of Kenya explained that the team was excited, knowing they were ...
Alicia McDermott - 05/05/2021 - 16:00
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The Curse of the Mijikenda Vigango Statues
During the 1980s, Coastal Kenya experienced the largest heist of ancestral artifacts in ... John B. Mitsanze to repatriate the looted statues back to Kenya. But a driving force in the return of the statues may ... return to the Mijikenda homesteads and village centers of Kenya. A Brief History of the Mijikenda Culture The Mijikenda ...
B. B. Wagner - 28/02/2021 - 22:08
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Unusual 20,000-year-old human skull shows diversity of prehistoric humanity
A unique Stone Age skull found in Kenya is reshaping what scientists know about the diversity ... and stored in the collections of the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi. Christian Tryon , archaeologist at Harvard ... skull fragment from a modern human found in Kenya. Credit: copyright President and Fellows of Harvard ...
lizleafloor - 20/02/2015 - 22:10
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Mixture and Migration Brought Food Production to Sub-Saharan Africa
... of Human History (MPI-SHH), the National Museums of Kenya and other partners was led by archaeogeneticist Ke Wang ... Genomic analysis of the six individuals here reported from Kenya's Pastoral Neolithic period (between 4,500 and 1,200 ... scenario," Dr. Emmanuel Ndiema of the National Museums of Kenya explains, "a single base population in northern Africa ...
ancient-origins - 15/06/2020 - 18:59
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Massive Monumental Cemetery in Eastern Africa Challenges Ideas of Monumentality
... ago by early pastoralists living around Lake Turkana, Kenya . This group is believed to have had an egalitarian ... and earrings from the communal cemetery of Lothagam North, Kenya, built by eastern Africa's earliest herders ~5000-4300 ... 14 Giant Inscribed Pillars South Island of Lake Turkana , Kenya. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) "The monuments may have served as a ...
ancient-origins - 22/08/2018 - 02:01
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Ancient DNA is Revealing the Origins of Livestock Herding in Africa
... in elaborate monumental cemeteries near a lakeshore in Kenya. Two millennia later, pastoralist settlements were ... the genomes of 41 people buried at archaeological sites in Kenya and Tanzania, more than doubling the number of ancient ... marked by a black star, produced the oldest ancient DNA in Kenya. Elizabeth Sawchuk, CC BY-ND (The Conversation) After ...
ancient-origins - 30/05/2019 - 22:55
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Could The Gedi Ruins Be Haunted By Jins?
... is the abandoned city known as Gedi on the coast of Kenya. Historic cities throughout the world have always ... is the abandoned city known as Gedi on the coast of Kenya. The ruins of Gedi are extensive and undeniably ... are near the modern town of Gedi in the south east of Kenya, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Mombasa, a ...
Ed Whelan - 31/01/2019 - 01:56
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3.3-million-year-old stone tools overturn archaeological record, predate early humans
... Phys.org . Sammy Lokorodi, a fossil and artifact hunter in Kenya's northwestern desert, led the way to the discovery of ... Project Fieldwork in fossil-rich West Turkana, Kenya has revealed primitive stone tools dating to 3.3 ... human arrival in the Americas The unique Lake Turkana in Kenya is the world’s largest alkaline lake, as well as the ...
lizleafloor - 23/05/2015 - 21:34
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New Insights into Rapid Advance in Human Innovative Thinking
... were shaped as scrapers or awls. The National Museums of Kenya loaned the artifacts pictured above to conduct the ... past comes from the Olorgesailie Basin in southern Kenya, which holds an archeological record of early human ... the scientists say. The Olorgesailie Basin in southern Kenya, which holds an archeological record of early human ...
ancient-origins - 17/03/2018 - 00:59
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Ancient DNA is Restoring the Origin Story of the Swahili People of the East African Coast
... as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries like Uganda and ... as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries like Uganda and ... stand at the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Lamu in Kenya and Kilwa in Tanzania . Self-governance ended ...
ancient origins - 30/03/2023 - 18:59
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When DNA is Missing, an Ancient Sugar Chain May Help Trace Human Evolution
... Diego School of Medicine and Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya have discovered a new kind of glycan -- a type of sugar ... survives even in a 4 million-year-old animal fossil from Kenya, under conditions where ancient DNA does not. While ... hunter Meave Leakey, PhD, of Turkana Basin Institute of Kenya and Stony Brook University. Knowing that researchers ...
ancient-origins - 15/09/2017 - 01:50
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Online fossil hunters wanted: Citizen Science Project seeks help to discover prehistoric fossils
... fossils in a prehistoric, fossil-rich region in Kenya. There is no need to travel to Africa or sift through ... high-resolution images of the arid Turkana Basin in Kenya to find surface-level fossils (ranging from mammal ... was set up jointly by the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the University of Bradford , UK. The team of ...
lizleafloor - 10/09/2015 - 03:00
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Fossil Find Reveals New Species of Early Human - Origins of Modern Man Gets Crowded
... species, Kenyanthropus platyops, living near Lake Turkana, Kenya. ( Nature notes that the two species are thought to ...
lizleafloor - 29/05/2015 - 00:33
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Turkana Stone Beads Tell a Story of Herder Life in East Africa 5,000 Years Ago
... were marked by stone circles and pillars. The north-west Kenya “pillar sites” were built around the same time as ... in the society that used them. Stone pillar site, Turkana, Kenya ( Darouet / CC by SA 4.0 ) Wearing beads Humans have ... Ethiopia; and 350 km, near the modern city of Eldoret, Kenya. These suggest that bead making was not just a casual ...
ancient-origins - 12/11/2023 - 18:38
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Oldest Tools in the World Found at Lake Turkana, Predate Early Humans
... been discovered by scientists working near Lake Turkana, Kenya. They are said to be the oldest stone tools ever found, ... 700,000 years. The landscape of fossil-rich Lake Turkana, Kenya. Wikimedia Commons The team of scientists involved in ... Credit: Vassar.edu The unique Lake Turkana in Kenya is the world’s largest alkaline lake, as well as the ...
lizleafloor - 18/04/2015 - 01:51
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Australopithecus Fossils Found East of the Great Rift Valley
New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species -- ... team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of Kyoto University ...
ancient-origins - 25/03/2016 - 23:46