Tugen Hills

Tugen Hills

The Tugen Hills (also known as "Saimo") are series of hills in Baringo District, Kenya.

The Tugen Hills represent one of the few areas in Africa preserving a succession of deposits from the period of between 14 and 4 million years ago, making them an important location for the study of human (and animal) evolution. Excavations at the site conducted by Richard Leakey and others have yielded a complete skeleton of a 1.5-million-year-old elephant (1967), a new species of monkey (1969) and fossil remains of hominids from 1 to 2 million years ago.cite web
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4201666.stm
title=BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | First chimpanzee fossils found
publisher=news.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=2008-03-16]

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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4201666.stm First chimpanzee fossils found]
* [http://faculty.smu.edu/bjacobs/miocene.htm Pokot woman in native dress, photographed in the Tugen Hills, Kenya]


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