Isimila Stone Age Site is an Acheulean site where tools, stone artifacts and bones were found in a dry bed that was once a shallow lake. Discovered in 1951 and excavated in 1957, soil erosion exposed many items at Isimila. Tools that were found include axes, cleavers and spherical stones and they are believed to date from 60,000 years ago.Many fossilized bones believed to be those of mammals related to the modern giraffes, but with much shorter necks and an extinct form of hippopotamus with periscope-like eyes that protrude were uncovered.Isimila appears to have been a watering hole and a place to hunt for early hominoids.The area surrounding Isimila Stone Age Site is known as Isimila Gully with pillars of limestone that were left standing by erosion over the millennia. This site is worth the journey and has become a popular picnic spot.
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