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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
- 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
- Description
- A group of Acheulian cleavers from Olorgesailie with their edges damaged by use.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16134
- 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
- Description
- Site DE/89 C- A tree root associated with the horizon.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16132
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Description
- Site DE/89- Mr. Kashilu Kanunga at work exposing the material.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16128
- Description
- Site DE/89- Part of the dense patch of material.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16127
- 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
- Description
- A detail of part of this horizon.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16125
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Description
- View of catwalk and Acheulean bifaces.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 18426
- Description
- General view, Olorgesailie Site.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 18425