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🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village

Hyrax Hill

Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists

Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.