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[https://www.futurity.org/herding-africa-skeletons-2075202-2/ by Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook 31/5/19 FUTURITY] | [https://www.futurity.org/herding-africa-skeletons-2075202-2/ by Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook 31/5/19 FUTURITY] | ||
“The origins of food producers in East Africa have remained elusive because of gaps in the archaeological record,” explains Mary Prendergast, a co-first author and professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain “Our study uses DNA to answer previously unsolvable questions about how people were moving and interacting.” | “The origins of food producers in East Africa have remained elusive because of gaps in the archaeological record,” explains Mary Prendergast, a co-first author and professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain “Our study uses DNA to answer previously unsolvable questions about how people were moving and interacting.” | ||
=====Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site===== | |||
[https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6665/ by unesco] | |||
Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley between two extinct volcanoes, Mt. Olorgesailie and Oldonyo Esakut to the south-west of Nairobi, Kenya. Olorgesailie area is in a lake basin that existed during the latter part of the middle Pleistocene period, probably between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. Discovered by Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1940s, Olorgesailie was excavated by Glynn Isaac as his dissertation research during the 1960s. | |||
