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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16058
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- World Region
- Africa
- Region
- Eastern Africa and Islands
- Country
- Kenya
- Geographic Location
- Lake Turkana
- Archaeological Site Name
- Koobi Fora
- Description
- Part of the terrain in which the hunt for fossils and archaeological remains is carried out. In the foreground area the brown-sandstone-mantled outcrops of the Lower Memer with the find spot of the hominid skull 1470 being searched and sieved. In the background is the Farari escarpment, formed by the more rapidly eroding Upper Member deposits (Area 131).
- Image Categories
- Cultural Landscape: Site overview
- Geographic Feature: Desert
- Methodology: Archaeology- field
- Source Type Detail
- Vendor: W. A. Benjamin, Inc. :: vendor_series
Technical Details
- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4576 x 3039
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 22097
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-22097/22097
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"Part of the terrain in which the hunt for fossils and archaeological remains is carried out. In the foreground area the brown-sandstone-mantled outcrops of the Lower Memer with the find spot of the hominid skull 1470 being searched and sieved. In the background is the Farari escarpment, formed by the more rapidly eroding Upper Member deposits (Area 131).". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-22097/22097. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 24, 2024.