15/08/2021
HYRAX HILLS WEEK ONE
WHERE HERITAGE LIVES
Hyrax hill is a narrow rock spur lava lying at the eastern edge of Nakuru town, it stands 50 m high on a 59 hectares land and its summits rises to an attitude of 1900 meters above sea level.
The name hyrax hill was borrowed from a rock mammal known as rock hyrax which numerously occupied the cravings of the rocks.
Few meters from the crest/summit of the hill towards the north eastern of the hill, this is an old farmhouse which in the year 1220s, it was owned by a dairy coronial famer know as madam A.selfe which currently acting as the site museum.
hyrax hill museum and prehistoric Is a site museum (the artifacts retrieved from the site were stored in the museum gallery for exhibition)
history of the site
1920: The building which now serves as the museum gallery was once a farmhouse of a dairy colonial farmer, and one day as she undertaking her dairy activities, she across some evidence of ancient habitation with stones arranged in circular manner in a shape of a hut, stone bowls hidden under a rock.
She became so curious and decided to contact an archeologist Dr louis s.b Leakey who was doing his excavation in the adjacent Nakuru burial site, but since he was too busy, he was never bothered until in 1923.
1923; in this year, major J. A MacDonald visited the farm and wrote a letter to the east African standard reporting this finding of A.Selfe
1926; in this year this article reached Dr. Louise Leakey and evicted some curiosity, this is when he decided to reach the farm and see this evidence and after reaching, he surveyed the farm but he noted that the who live here were too recent with recent technology and since he was expert in ancient archelogy, he didn’t carry any excavations, but he concluded that the people who lived here were pastoralists and named them Neolithic.
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