EXCAVATIONS AT THE NJORO RIVER CAVE

Published in assaciation with the Museums' Trustees of Kenya and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Grey paper / carton covers, title to the front cover, 78 pages, folding map at rear.

Njoro River Cave is an archaeological site on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, that was first excavated in 1938 by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey.[1] Excavations revealed a mass cremation site created by Elmenteitan pastoralists during the Pastoral Neolithic roughly 3350-3050 BP. Excavations also uncovered pottery, beads, stone bowls, basket work, pestles and flakes. The Leakey’s excavation was one of the earliest to uncover ancient beads and tools in the area and a later investigation in 1950 was the first to use radiocarbon dating in East Africa. (wikipedia)