Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site and Museum

Hyrax hill is a museum as well as anational monument.it is a burial site of the neolithic period(of the late stone age and iron age)It is situated East of Nakuru town,about 3.5Km on the foot of asmall hill once scampetred by Hyraxes hence the name Hyrax Hill.The site covers an area about 58Hectares of land ,most of whiich is covered by the hill.The site is composed of habitation hollows believed to have been inhabited by a pastrol group thatproceeded the present Maasai in Kenya.The summit of the hill rises to altitude of 1900Metres above sea level.The site was proclaimed a monument in 1943 having being discovered by a local farmer in the 1920s,it was then opened to the Public in the year 1965 and since then it has remained under the care of National museums of Kenya.

The hill comprisesa particular importance since it has several phases of occupation and it has a long history of archeological investigation which started in the year 1937 with Mary Leackey.
The museum is a small museum based on the a house that was a European settler's house on the Eatern side of the slope.The collection are exhibited in a glass cshowcase in the three rooms of the Museum,these comprise of some of the obsidian tools that were excavated in the site,pots,and grind stones.The museum is divided into 3 sections,we have a chamber that dispalys the ethonographic material of the rift valley people,the part that dispalays the archeology of the site and finally the Natural History of Rift valley.