Our amazing Africa experience has come to an end - time rushed by at an astonishing speed! We did have a fantastic last day though: a closing ceremony with Drs Richard and Meave Leakey. After an inspiring ...Continue Reading Comments Off
With all their new knowledge about our ancestors and the tools they used, students got to make their own stone tools! Knapping -manipulating stone to create a tool - is not as easy as it sounds. Its a ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Yesterday students went to a site rich in pottery shards, ostrich egg shells, stone tools and beads. Even though is was hot, the numerous artifacts that were easily spotted on the sandy surface, made ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Students continued to learn more about stone tools – what they look like, their purpose, and how they were made. In the early stages, starting maybe about 3 million years ago, humans made tools by ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Archaeology, our fifth and final module, started Monday. Students learned a lot about the basics: Archaeology is the study of artifacts and buildings that people have left behind. In Turkana, there ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Local students went back to visit the Lorengelup primary school where they planted trees a few weeks ago. They had since erected some barriers around these little trees to protect them from the many goats ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Students learned in detail about how decaying organic plant material gets preserved over time (taphonomy). For example, plants can get preserved under volcanic ash, mud slides, or on lake and river bottoms. ...Continue Reading Comments Off
This week, students will be learning al about the differences among living plants and their adaptations. Did you know that there are many more plants with toothed leaves in colder climates and that most ...Continue Reading Comments Off
The Field School is not all work; there is also some time to relax. On Sunday students went to Eliye Springs on the sandy shores of Lake Turkana. This little “resort” features a small restaurant with ...Continue Reading Comments Off
Students went on a field trip to Kalodir, a site where with exposed sediments that are over 17 million years old. After chipping away sediments students recovered impressions of leaves and other plant ...Continue Reading Comments Off
