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Kapthurin Formation

Kenyan Rift Valley formation spanning the Middle Pleistocene, with Acheulean handaxes and some of the earliest evidence of ochre possibly used for body adornment.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 283,050 years ago mainstream
  Argon-argon dating of ash overlying ochre fragments places early pigment use at about 285,000 years ago source

Where

0.3100° N, 35.5800° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.005
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapthurin_Formation

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