Tugen Hills

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The Tugen Hills (also known as Saimo) are series of hills in Baringo District, Kenya.

The Tugen Hills represent one of the few areas in Africa preserving a succession of deposits from the period of between 14 and 4 million years ago, making them an important location for the study of human (and animal) evolution. Excavations at the site conducted by Richard Leakey have yielded a complete skeleton of a 1.5-million-year-old elephant (1967), a new species of monkey (1969) and fossil remains of hominids from 1 to 2 million years ago.

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• First chimpanzee fossils found
• Pokot woman in native dress, photographed in the Tugen Hills, Kenya