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Description: The fault scarps cut the Lower Pleistocene Peninj Group sediments so that some outcrops are down in the Natron trough as seen here, while others over large areas of the plateau above. The Peninj australopithecine jaw was found in the eroded area seen here.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16105
World Region: Africa

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Description: The gully in which the Peninj jaw was found. The somewhat orange stratum consists of basaltic tuffs in the Humbu Formation, just above the level that yielded the jaw.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16106
World Region: Africa

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Description: The Peninj australopithecine mandible at the moment of discovery by Mr. Kamoya Kimeu.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16107
World Region: Africa

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Description: The australopithecine jaw was just projecting a little from an erosion cliff.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16108
World Region: Africa

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Description: Excavations have disengaged the mandible and it is now ready for removal.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16109
World Region: Africa

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Description: Subsequently, extensive excavations were undertaken at the site, but no further hominid bones, artifacts, or indeed any useful fossils were found.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16110
World Region: Africa

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Description: Diagrams illustrating the stratigraphy and dating of the mandible. It was stratified below one lava dated at 1.3 million years and also below another one with normal polarity. This suggests Olduvai event age 1.8 - 1.6 million years (see Isaac and Curtis, 1974).
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16111
World Region: Africa

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Description: An Olivine basalt flow in Humbu Formation tuffs. These tuffs are equivalent to the tuffs just above the mandible. The potassium-argon age of the lava thus helps to date the mandible (Isaac and Curtis, 1974).
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16112
World Region: Africa

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Description: Above the fault scarp, Lower Pleistocene sediments occur over a very wide area, but are mostly covered with vegetation and soil.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16113
World Region: Africa

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Description: However in one area, far inland from the lake, erosion has exposed a concentration of stone tools at a horizon between that dated to 1.3 and 1.6. This is the site RHS. Here Margaret Leakey and Glynn Isaac sort specimens from the eroded surface of this site.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16114
World Region: Africa

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Description: Excavation at RHS uncovered the sandy bank of a small stream channel; strewn with very early Acheulian stone tools.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16115
World Region: Africa

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Description: Detail of the excavation at RHS. Mr. Kitibe Kimeu uncovers Acheulian artifacts.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16116
World Region: Africa

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Description: An early Acheulian hand-axe made on a large flake from the site of RHS. The assemblage is 1.3 - 1.6 million years old, and along with EFHR at Olduvai is the oldest securely-dated Acheulian known.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16117
World Region: Africa

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Description: An early Acheulian cleaver from RHS made on a large flake.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16118
World Region: Africa

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Description: A view from the edge of the Rift Valley looking down to the Olorgesailie basin on the floor of the complex trough.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16119
World Region: Africa

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Description: An air view of the floor at the Rift in the Olorgesailie area showing how "grid formation" has broken the terrain into a series of troughs and ridges. Some of the troughs are still seasonally flooded.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16120
World Region: Africa

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Description: Olorgesailie takes its name form the Masai word for the mountain seen behind this group of Masai women and children.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16121
World Region: Africa

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Description: An air view of the main site at Olorgesailie where a series of museum-on-the-spot exhibits were established in 1947 by Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16122
World Region: Africa

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Description: Erosion has exposed hundreds of hand-axes at this site and a catwalk has been erected to enable visitors to examine them without damaging them.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16123
World Region: Africa

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Description: An excavation in the outcrop adjacent to the catwalk shows our horizon strewn with artifacts that have not yet been exposed by the advancing erosion front.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16124
World Region: Africa

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Description: A detail of part of this horizon.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16125
World Region: Africa

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Description: Excavations nearby disclosed the existence of a dense patch of artifacts that had not yet been cut into by erosion. This patch has a diameter of 12 - 15 m. and contains more than a tone of stone, which was apparently imported by early man. This is the site of DE/89 horizon B. The material has been concentrated by current action in part of the seasonal streambed in which the early humans camped.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16126
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89- Part of the dense patch of material.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16127
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89- Mr. Kashilu Kanunga at work exposing the material.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16128
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89 B- Close-up showing bones (femurs in this case) of the extinct primate species Theropithecus (Simopethecus) which was hunted in quantity by the occupants of this site.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16129
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89 B & A- Another horizon (A) underlies the main horizon. Part of this has been exposed.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16130
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89 C- Above the main horizon another small patch of artifacts were found (horizon C). These had to be removed before we could dig down to the large patch.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16131
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89 C- A tree root associated with the horizon.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16132
World Region: Africa

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Description: Site DE/89- The whole site has been covered with a roof to preserve it as an exhibit.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16133
World Region: Africa

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Description: A group of Acheulian cleavers from Olorgesailie with their edges damaged by use.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16134
World Region: Africa

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Description: Small tools from the Olorgesailie Acheulian sites: scraper, nosed and beaked forms, and a notched piece. Most artifacts, both large and small, are made of lavas from the vicinity of the lake basin. This selection is of obsidian, quartz and chert which were presumably brought in from more remote areas.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16135
World Region: Africa

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Description: Bone food refuse at most Olorgesailie sites had been smashed up into small pieces. Presumably, at least in part, to extract marrow.
Date of Photo: 1975
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16136
World Region: Africa

Description: Thebes, Statue of Amenophis.
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16262
World Region: Africa

Description: Thebes, Temple and terraces of Queen Hapshepsut.
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16263
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Ka'-aper Scheick el-Beled (V Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16264
World Region: Africa

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Description: Cairo, Head of mummy of Ramses II.
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16265
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Les oies de meidoun. (4th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16266
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, statue of King Chephren, builder of the pyramid (2e). (4th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16267
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Maid servant carrying vases. (11th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16268
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Chapel of King Touthmosis III in Egyptian Museum. (18th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16269
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Unfinished head of Queen Nefertiti in Egyptian Museum. (18th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16270
World Region: Africa

Description: Cairo, Hathor cow with image of Amenophis II in Egyptian Museum. (18th Dynasty).
Date of Photo: Feb. 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16271
World Region: Africa