Abstract
Information concerning the technology, land-use patterns and activities of early hominids is being recovered from the Upper Member of the Koobi Fora Formation. The term Karari Industry is proposed for a distinctive local series of artefact assemblages that date to the period between 1.2 and 1.6 Myr BP.
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Harris, J., Isaac, G. The Karari Industry: Early Pleistocene archaeological evidence from the terrain east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature 262, 102–107 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262102a0
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