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Record Details
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16074
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- World Region
- Africa
- Region
- Eastern Africa and Islands
- Country
- Kenya
- Geographic Location
- Lake Turkana
- Archaeological Site Name
- Koobi Fora
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): (Fx Jj1)- View of the site from the adjacent gully. The beds in the foreground are deposits laid down in lagoons and swamps at the lake margin. The pale outcrop above is the KBS tuff which here fills an ancient distributary channel system that was established over the swamps as the lake retreated. The early prehistoric occupants of the site camped on the sandy substratum provided by the tuff filled channel.
- Source Type Detail
- Vendor: W. A. Benjamin, Inc. :: vendor_series
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- Collection
- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 4472 x 3126
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 22113
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-22113/22113
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"Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): (Fx Jj1)- View of the site from the adjacent gully. The beds in the foreground are deposits laid down in lagoons and swamps at the lake margin. The pale outcrop above is the KBS tuff which here fills an ancient distributary channel system that was established over the swamps as the lake retreated. The early prehistoric occupants of the site camped on the sandy substratum provided by the tuff filled channel.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-22113/22113. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 24, 2024.