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Kariandusi, Kenya
The Kariandusi site was discovered in the late 1920s during Louis Leakey’s first visits to the central Rift Valley. A second site was discovered by R. Terry during the 1970s, and investigated by the author. The sites are well-known for their obsidian hand-axes, but the lower site includes mainly specimens made of a local trachyte lava.
The site is one of the museums of National Museums of Kenya
Gowlett, J.A.J. and Crompton, R.H. 1994. Kariandusi: Acheulean morphology and the question of allometry. African Archaeological Review 12, 3-42.
Gowlett, J.A.J. 1980. Acheulean sites in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya. In Leakey, R.E. and Ogot, B.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, Nairobi,1977. TILLMIAP, Nairobi, pp 213-217.
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