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Showing results for the phrase "Olorgesailie" in Archaeological Site Name.

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Description
General view, Olorgesailie Site.
Holdings
35mm slide: 18425
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

Description
View of catwalk and Acheulean bifaces.
Holdings
35mm slide: 18426
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

Description
A detail of part of this horizon.
Date of Photo
1975
Holdings
35mm slide: 16125
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

Description
Site DE/89- Part of the dense patch of material.
Date of Photo
1975
Holdings
35mm slide: 16127
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie

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
Archaeological Site Name
Olorgesailie
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