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JUNE 25-29; JULY 2-6, 2014  
LOG SHEET # 5
SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
AUDIO/VIDEO LOG SHEET

LOGGER/VIDEOGRAPHER: Linn Bunch, Robbie Curry
MEMORY CARD NUMBER - TASCAM: CFCH 20 
FILE NAME: BOMA - 0136.wav
MEMORY CARD NUMBER - ZOOM H2: CFCH 22  
FILE NAME: -
PRESENTER: Rick Potts  
ATE/TIME: Wed July 2/2:00
PROGRAM: "The Search for Human Origins"  
STAGE: Boma Stage
GROUP NAME:
REGION/STYLE; Kenya - Mamba Poa - It's All Good

[[2 columned table]]
| PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Dr. Frederic Kyalo Manthi | National Museums of Kenya  head of pal [[strikethrough]] ern [[/strikethrough]] paleontology department |

CONTENTS/NOTES (continue on back):
- [[srtikethrough]] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. [[/strikethrough]] 
introduction - speaker's early interest in fossils, (children books) education
- Museums of Kenya include archealogical (sp.?)sites. 
- Discussion of Kenya's history as the cradle of humanity with massive sites; (more than South Africa's)
- discussion of how to locate dig (on likely dig) - by examination of rocks on earths crust
- discussion of carbon dating - not relevant to Kenya's fossils as they are too old to use this method. They use argon/argon dating
- discussion of Maeve Leakey's research