The gang walk built around the site where many pre-historic bones and tools lay buried. Left: Directions to another site of interest Pictures: By Rupi Mangat
If you want to know how our ancestors lived 1.2 million years ago, all you need to do is follow the happenings at Olorgesailie prehistoric site, for it is the best dated prehistoric site in the world for that period.
The 300 square kilometre site, on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, an hour’s drive south of Nairobi, has an in-situ museum with prehistoric hand axes as well as sites like the butchery, which was the scene of a hunting expedition believed to have been used by the Homo erectus. It is an amazing place where Dr Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institute in the USA says, “stone tools keep coming out of the sediments.”
