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ID: 7016560
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016560
Record Type:
administrative
Olorgesailie (prehistoric site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 40 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 036 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Prehistoric lakeside settlement where the fossils of Homo Erectus and a large concentration of various tools formed evidence for early tool use for different tasks ranging from butchering to woodworking.
Names:
Olorgesailie
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
LC
,
O
)
Olorgasailie National Monument
(
C
,
V
)
Olorgasailie
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kenya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kajiado
(county) (
P
)
................
Olorgesailie
(prehistoric site) (
P
)
Place Types:
prehistoric site (
preferred
,
C
)
............
site of remains of Homo erectus
monument (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Olorgasailie..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
350
Olorgasailie National Monument..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.....................................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-128
Olorgesailie..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Library of Congress Subject Headings (2002-)
97002053, accessed 27 July 2010
.......................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
446
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-128
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
350
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
446
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