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Ileret (also spelled Illeret) is a village in Marsabit County, Kenya. It is located in Northern Kenya, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, north of Sibiloi National Park and near the Ethiopian border. Administratively, Ileret is a part of a ward of the same name, which is part of North Horr Constituency and Marsabit County Council.〔Electoral Commission of Kenya: (''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency'' )〕 The village is also part of an administrative location which has a area-wide population of 5,045.〔information.go.ke:(CDF allocation by sector and location (2003–6) )〕 Numerous hominin fossils have been found near Ileret; and ''Homo erectus'' footprints of 1.5 million years age, the second oldest hominin footprints ever found after those at Laetoli, Tanzania, were also found there.〔BBC News, 26 February 2009: (Earliest 'human footprints' found )〕〔Jungers W.L., Grine F.E., Leakey M.G., Leakey L., Brown F., Yang D. et Tocheri M.W. New hominin fossils from Ileret (Kolom Odiet), Kenya // The 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2015, Podium Session, Podium Abstract.〕 A field research camp is located in Ileret, and an airfield nearby.〔Turkana Basin Institute, 21 April 2008: (TBI Ileret Field Station Fully Operational )〕 == See also == * Happisburgh footprints * Koobi Fora, a fossil site and field research camp * Laetoli Footprints 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ileret」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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