Allia Bay Excavation Site (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Allia Bay Excavation Site

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Excavation of the bone bed at the Allia Bay site, East Turkana, in 1996. A cross section of the bone bed can be seen passing diagonally from the center of the image to the right hand corner. This is the site where researchers collected a 4-million-year-old bovid fossil that contained Gc-CS.

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Photo courtesy of Meave Leakey, PhD.

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