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[https://museu.ms/museum/details/17793/hyrax-hill-prehistoric-site-and-museum by MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD] | [https://museu.ms/museum/details/17793/hyrax-hill-prehistoric-site-and-museum by MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD] | ||
Hyrax hill is a museum as well as anational monument.it is a burial site of the neolithic period(of the late stone age and iron age)It is situated East of Nakuru town,about 3.5Km on the foot of asmall hill once scampetred by Hyraxes hence the name Hyrax Hill.The site covers an area about 58Hectares of land ,most of whiich is covered by the hill.The site is composed of habitation hollows believed to have been inhabited by a pastrol group thatproceeded the present Maasai in Kenya.The summit of the hill rises to altitude of 1900Metres above sea level.The site was proclaimed a monument in 1943 having being discovered by a local farmer in the 1920s,it was then opened to the Public in the year 1965 and since then it has remained under the care of National museums of Kenya. | Hyrax hill is a museum as well as anational monument.it is a burial site of the neolithic period(of the late stone age and iron age)It is situated East of Nakuru town,about 3.5Km on the foot of asmall hill once scampetred by Hyraxes hence the name Hyrax Hill.The site covers an area about 58Hectares of land ,most of whiich is covered by the hill.The site is composed of habitation hollows believed to have been inhabited by a pastrol group thatproceeded the present Maasai in Kenya.The summit of the hill rises to altitude of 1900Metres above sea level.The site was proclaimed a monument in 1943 having being discovered by a local farmer in the 1920s,it was then opened to the Public in the year 1965 and since then it has remained under the care of National museums of Kenya. | ||
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[https://abiri.home.blog/archaeological-sites-in-kenya-2/ by Abiri Kenya] | |||
6 million years there was a portentous wend in the paradigm of the evolution of species, as the foremost ancestor of humankind set about evolving the features unique to its kind. Homo sapiens, the à la mode and only extant human species, belongs to a group of over 180 divergent species, some extanct, others that have disappeared, and is not per-se a direct descendant of the monkey species as the modest like to simplify. | |||
