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Olorgesailie

Kenyan Rift Valley basin with a very long Acheulean-to-Middle Stone Age record, including early pigment use and long-distance transport of obsidian.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 600,000 years ago mainstream
  Acheulean hand-axe technology in use, part of an occupation phase spanning roughly 600,000-900,000 years ago source
• about 320,000 years ago mainstream
  Ochre pigment use and transport of obsidian over 16-40 km, alongside possible early projectile points source

Where

1.5779° S, 36.4462° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao2646
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olorgesailie

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