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From Area 129

Posted by Louise Leakey on July 16th, 2010. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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. You ...

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Excavation progress

Posted by Louise Leakey on June 7th, 2010. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

Final week of first excavation in progress for the Koobi Fora Research Project. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Final week of first excavation ...

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Field season begins again for 2010

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on June 3rd, 2010. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

With the generous support of National Geographic Society Missions programs we are back to the field again. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. With ...

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Fossil preparation training gets underway

Posted by Louise Leakey on November 10th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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Wet sieving continues

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on October 22nd, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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The field season takes a break

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on September 8th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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From the three seive sites

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on August 9th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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Three hominins in a single morning

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on August 2nd, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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John does it again

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on July 11th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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. ...

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Giant Crocodile Skull

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on July 11th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

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 ...

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