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Koobi Fora Field School; Koobi Fora Research Project; The Jade Sea and a treasure-trove of fossils; Age of KBS Tuff in Koobi Fora Formation, East Rudolf, Kenya, article by Curtis, Drake, Cerling & Hampel in Nature 258, 395 – 398 (4 December 1975). Abstract and bibliography are for free.
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi. [5] As a small boy, Leakey lived in Nairobi with his parents: Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers, Jonathan and Philip. [6]
Sibiloi National Park is located on the wild and rugged shores of Lake Turkana – the cradle of mankind - Sibiloi is home to important archaeological sites including Koobi Fora where the fossil remains have contributed more to the understanding of human evolution than any other site in the continent.
KNM ER 3733 [a] is a fossilized hominid cranium of the extinct hominid Homo ergaster, alternatively referred to as African Homo erectus.It was discovered in 1975 in Koobi Fora, Kenya, right next to Lake Turkana, in a survey led by Richard Leakey, by a field worker called Bernard Ngeneo.
View of Lake Turkana with the Koobi Fora formations in the background. Lake Turkana is an East African Rift feature. [18] A rift is a weak place in the Earth's crust due to the separation of two tectonic plates, often accompanied by a graben, or trough, in which lake water can collect.
Omo Kibish Formation rocks near the town of Kibish, where the human fossils were discovered. The Omo Kibish Formation or simply Kibish Formation is a geological formation in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia.
Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of the Middle Lake Basin in Kenya, University of Chicago Press, 1977. The food-sharing behavior of protohuman hominids. Scientific American 238:90-108, 1978. Koobi Fora Research Project: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology, Glynn Ll. Isaac (Editor), et al., Clarendon Press, 1997.
Athletics (track and field) was one of the two modern sports (together with football) to be formally organized in Kenya. Kenya has regularly produced Olympic and Commonwealth Games champions in various distance events, especially in 800 m, 1,500 m, 3,000 m steeplechase, 5,000 m, 10,000 m and the marathons.