The Kapthurin Formation is a series of Middle Pleistocene sediments associated with the East African Rift Valley. Part of the East African Rift System...
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Levallois flakes struck from boulder cores have been found at the Kapthurin Formation site in western Kenya, near Lake Bogoria and Lake Baringo. The earliest...
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helmei. Early physical evidence comes from the Gademotta Formation in Ethiopia, the Kapthurin Formation in Kenya and Kathu Pan in South Africa. There are MSA...
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appearance of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), from the Middle Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, sheds light on the evolution and paleoecology of large zebras"...
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skillset to work and gather materials for than boneworking. The Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, has yielded the oldest evidence of blade and bladelet technology...
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appearance of Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), from the Middle Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, sheds light on the evolution and paleoecology of large zebras"...
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Middle Stone Age site in the Formation. Although similar in age with the oldest Middle Stone Age site in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, the oldest occupation...
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years old have been discovered in the East-African rift valley (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya), where many fossils from the human lineage (hominins) have...
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known African Levallois point, dated to 400 Ka, in East Africa's Kapthurin Formation. This far predates the previous figure of 130 Ka for when modern...
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"Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya". Journal of Human Evolution. 42 (1–2): 211–235. Bibcode:2002JHumE...
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fossils reported as the earliest found were reported found in the Kapthurin formation in 2005. Daniel arap Moi was born in Baringo District during 1924...
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this species reported to date, is described from the Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation (Kenya) by O'Brien et al. (2021). Revision of the fossil material...
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000 BP – 490 BP) Kapthurin (285,000 BP) Omo Kibish Formation (196,000 BP) Omo remains Omo River Gademotta (183,000 BP) Bouri Formation (160,000 BP) Mousteroid...
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collections of the National Museum of Kenya which originated from the Kapthurin Formation and dated back to ~545,000 years ago. By comparing their measurements...
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