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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. | 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. | ||
=====Professor’s work in Kenya investigates site of newly discovered human remains===== | |||
[https://den.mercer.edu/professors-work-in-kenya-investigates-site-of-newly-discovered-human-remains/ by Jennifer Falk 15/9/21 theDen] | |||
Since December 2018, Dr. Francis Kirera, an assistant professor of anatomy at the School of Medicine, has been leading a team of researchers at the site in Ngobit, located in the Central Highlands. The uncovering of the hominin fossil by Kenyan archaeologist Richard Kinyua was a major discovery. | |||
