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- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): Among the scatter of discarded artifacts are broken-up animal bones. Glynn Isaac works at disengaging a fragment of antelope pelvis. Presumably this is food refuse.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16083
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): A representative series of the 129 artifacts which have been recovered from this site. Top row, angular fragments (= broken flakes without a talon). Second row, split and snapped flakes. Third and fourth rows, whole flakes. Bottom row, core-choppers, polyhedrons, discoids, etc.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16084
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): Part of the tooth row of a medium-sized antelope (a Waterbuck).
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16085
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): A chopper from KBS.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16086
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): A plan of the location of in situ finds at KBS. The excavation has revealed part of a patch of discarded material some 12 - 15 inches in diameter. The left-hand portion was destroyed by erosion before discovery of the site. Part has deliberately been left unexcavated so as to be available for future research.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16087
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): In the silts covering the archaeological site numerous leaf casts were found. The species has not been identified but they may belong to the genus Ficus. Very probably groves of trees grew along the sandy channel and their shade may have been among the attractions leading to hominid occupation of this spot.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16088
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): A contour plan showing the form of the outcrop and the layout of the excavation (see Human Origins, Isaac et al. 1975, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., for details).
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16089
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site KBS (Kay Behrensmeyer Site): A schematic reconstruction of the paleogeographic setting of the sites KBS and HAS in a delta floodplain just inland of a swampy lakeshore with lagoon (this reconstruction is subject to some revision as a result of more recent geological work).
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16090
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- The eastern shores of Lake Turkana (Rudolf) are inhabited by mobile groups of fishers, the Gal-dies, who are a segment of the mainly pastoral and agricultural Dassanetch. A fisherman in a dugout canoe.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16091
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Close-up of a canoe and gear. The staves are harpoon shafts each with an iron point, an oryx-horn sleeve and a stranded bark-fiber line.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16092
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- A fisherman undertaking repairs to his gear.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16093
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Archaeological ethnography- Recording the characteristics of a Gal-dies camp after it had been abandoned. At work Mr. Mudoga, Mr. Kimemgech, Dr. Hill and Mr. Bartheme.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16094
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Excavating a Gal-dies camp that had been buried by sand a short while after occupation had ended. The fishing group had chosen this spot because the ephemeral water course provided comfortable sand to sit on. The small stream then flooded, burying the discarded flood refuse and the hearth. The situation involves many parallels with the KBS site. Ms. Diane Gifford (left rear) conducted the study and will publish detailed reports.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16095
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Detail of site showing sand covering firewood heap and some food refuse.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16096
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- A topee carcass left by lions, only partly eaten.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16097
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- A Shankilla youth, finding himself at a fresh topee carcass without a knife knocked some small flakes off a stone cobble and used these to slit the skin of the topee leg.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16098
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Detail of the small flake from slide #16098 in use.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16099
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- The objects involved in this ingenious modern instance of stone tool use: block from which flakes were detached, small flakes used, bone broken to extract marrow after being skinned.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16100
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- View from the north end of Lake Natron. The active volcano Lengai can be seen in the far distance. The modern delta of the Peninj River can be seen projecting into the lake from the right. The flower is a desert rose (Adensonia sp.)
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16101
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- The same view from slide #16101 a few years later when the shallow salty lake has partly dried-up.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16102
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Air view of the escarpment that runs parallel to the western shore of the lake. The faults creating this scarp have moved mainly since the deposition of the Peninj fossiliferous beds. The plain above runs through a gap to join with the Serengeti at Olduvai Gorge, which is only about 30 miles away.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16103
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- A closer view of the fault scarp plus a Pleiocene volcano, Mozonik, that projects through a flood of lavas. Behind is the active volcano Lengai which has been built up entirely since the period in which the Peninj beds were deposited.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16104
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- The Peninj australopithecine mandible at the moment of discovery by Mr. Kamoya Kimeu.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16107
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- The australopithecine jaw was just projecting a little from an erosion cliff.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16108
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Excavations have disengaged the mandible and it is now ready for removal.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16109
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Detail of the excavation at RHS. Mr. Kitibe Kimeu uncovers Acheulian artifacts.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16116
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- An early Acheulian cleaver from RHS made on a large flake.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16118
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- A detail of part of this horizon.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16125
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site DE/89- Part of the dense patch of material.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16127
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site DE/89- Mr. Kashilu Kanunga at work exposing the material.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16128
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- 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
- Country
- Kenya
- Description
- Site DE/89 C- A tree root associated with the horizon.
- Date of Photo
- 1975
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16132
- Country
- Kenya