- The
Kapthurin Formation is a
series of
Middle Pleistocene sediments ****ociated with the East
African Rift Valley. Part of the East
African Rift System...
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physical evidence comes from the
Gademotta Formation in Ethiopia, the
Kapthurin Formation in
Kenya and
Kathu Pan in
South Africa.
There are MSA archaeological...
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Large Levallois flakes struck from
boulder cores have been
found at the
Kapthurin Formation site in
western Kenya, near Lake
Bogoria and Lake Baringo. The...
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Europe and Africa)
becomes much more
common after 300,000
years ago. The
Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, has
yielded the
oldest evidence of
small blade and bladelet...
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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...
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incised elephant tibia from
Bilzingsleben in Germany, and
ochre finds from
Kapthurin in
Kenya and
Duinefontein in
South Africa, are
sometimes cited as being...
- 500,000
years old have been
discovered in the East-African rift
valley (
Kapthurin Formation, Kenya),
where many
fossils from the
human lineage (hominins)...
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earliest 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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Although similar in age with the
oldest Middle Stone Age site in the
Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, the
oldest occupation at
Gademotta is characterized...
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chronostratigraphic and
technological analysis, such as
those at the
Kapthurin Formation,
offer hope for
better understanding the ESA-MSA transition...
