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ID: 7059194
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7059194
Record Type:
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Hyrax Hill (prehistoric site)
Note:
Located on the east edge of Nakuru; site of Neolithic and Iron age populations; marked by Sirikwa holes characteristic of the practices of prehistoric herdsmen who inhabited the region.
Names:
Hyrax Hill
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Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Kenya
(nation) (
P
)
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Nakuru
(county) (
P
)
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Hyrax Hill
(prehistoric site) (
P
)
Place Types:
prehistoric site (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
discovered 1920s
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Nakuru
.......... (inhabited place)
..............................
(World, Africa, Kenya, Nakuru) [1090526]
Sources and Contributors:
Hyrax Hill..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Phillipson, African Archaeology (1985)
145
.......................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
292
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
In "Nakuru"; accessed 29 July 2010
..................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
292
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
292
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