From Area 129
The excavation crew have completed the first excavation after four weeks of work. They have now moved to a new site where fossil hunter Robert Moru found a hominid femur last year.
From the excavation ...
The excavation crew have completed the first excavation after four weeks of work. They have now moved to a new site where fossil hunter Robert Moru found a hominid femur last year.
From the excavation ... Excavation progress
Final week of first excavation in progress for the Koobi Fora Research Project.
The field crew at the first excavation
Here are some images taken by Lawrence Nzuve who is at the site ... Field season begins again for 2010
With the generous support of National Geographic Society Missions programs we are back to the field again.
The field season started in the last week of May. It has been a very wet year ... Fossil preparation training gets underway
While some of the crew have been wet sieving the sediments recovered from the last field season, others have been doing specimen preparation. There are numerous large specimens, most of them in plaster ... Wet sieving continues
Lawrence Nzuve
After the short break after the field season, some members of the crew are back to work to continue with the wet sieving. A large quantity of sediment was painstakingly carried back to ... The field season takes a break
We close this season very content knowing that it has been a success. Its been exciting with several good discoveries made by several members of the field crew but as a result we spent longer on the sieves ... From the three seive sites
With the discovery, documenting and collecting of the hominin finds completed, each site now has to be seived. The crew does the preliminary sieving at the site and then the screened sediment is caried ... Three hominins in a single morning
The last few weeks have been busy and exciting for the crew members. What a day it was with the discovery of three hominin specimens- they were all found within hours of discovering the first one!
Crew ... John does it again
Just days after discovering the first hominid of the season in area 10, John seems to have done it again.The field crew moved into a new area and it was not long before he spoted a tooth lying on the surface. ... Giant Crocodile Skull
This is probably the largest fossil specimen found and collected in recent years. This is the massive skull and mandible of a crocodile, some 1.8 million years old. It appears to have its mouth tightly ...