🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Kapthurin Formation
The Kapthurin Formation is a series of Middle Pleistocene sediments associated with the East African Rift Valley.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Hyrax Hill
Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists
Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Hyrax Hill (Nakuru) – Pastoral Neolithic Necropolis
Pastoral Neolithic / Sirikwa · Elmenteitan / Sirikwa
Pastoral Neolithic–Sirikwa mound (1500 BCE to 1500 CE) atop tukana hill: stone-walled enclosures, 30-cairn necropolis with Elmenteitan obsidian blades, 20 crouched burials and Nderit ceramics.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Olorgesailie – Acheulean Handaxe Factory (1.2 Ma)
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean · Homo erectus / early Homo
Open-air Acheulean handaxe factory of Homo erectus (1200–400 ka) with in-situ butchery of extinct giant baboon and hippo, with volcanic stratigraphy teaching hominin handaxe evolution from…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Enkorika
Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site. Geologically it forms part of the Enkorika Fissure Zone.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana () is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, predominantly in northern Kenya; the far northern end crosses into Ethiopia.