The particular geology of the East African Rift system is also what made Olorgesailie a point of interest to anyone over the last million years… a happy place for Homo erectus to gather and live high…gazelles to throw rocks at, floating delicacies of rotting carcasses bobbing down river and refrigerator-size watermelons falling from trees to tumble up their doorsteps.
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Jan 05
Archaeology’s Glory Hole
But it isn’t always the dreariness of beads, broken bowls and crumbling bone. There have been a handful of little carvings which, no matter what their global significance or familiarity, are always neat to dig up. Little pieces of art that somebody put a little bit of themselves into in a time very long past. …
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