Also known as Lukenya Hill

Where: Athi-Kapiti Plain, Kenya (1.5° S, 37.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 37.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Level within site GvJm 62. Dated using C14, maximum age ~21,000, minimum 12,000. C14 dates Sample Gx-5774 = 21,535 (+-) 980, sample Gx-5773 = 11,950 (+-) 460 and 12,195 (+-) 330.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Late Pleistocene geometric (upper) separated by 30cm of low density artifactual material from lower, microlith-rich LSA. Material held in Kenya National Museum.

Primary reference: C. W. Marean. 1992. Implications of Late Quaternary mammalian fauna from Lukenya Hill (South-Central Kenya) for paleoenvironmental change and faunal extinctions. Quaternary Research 37:239-255 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32093: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 04.06.2003, edited by Denne Reed

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