Also known as Lukenya Hill

Where: Athi-Kapiti, 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)

• Dated using C14. Maximum age ~21,000 to Mimumum ~18,000. Gx-5350 = 20,780 (+-)1050 to 19,330 (+-)945. Date from Miller, 1979.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Late Pleistocene Geometric separated from MSA occupation by sterile lag deposit, capped by thin pastoral Neolithic. Microlith-rich/LSA (Backed bladelets, fan-shaped scrapers, hammerstones). Report includes two trenches 1m x 3m excavated by Miller (1979). Material held in the National Museum of Kenya.

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 32126: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 05.06.2003, edited by Denne Reed

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