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Croc and hippo in sandstone

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

The past few weeks have been very busy for both the crew and the collection team; initially we were concentrating in Area 10. While we were there we were able to collect a large sand stone block which ...

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Hominin teeth at the start of the season

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on June 17th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

Here is a report from our first few days in the field. We started the season returning to area 10, where we were working in 2007. There were some fossils that remained to be collected there and so we took ...

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Preparation for the Field

Posted by Lawrence Nzuve on June 7th, 2009. Category: Koobi Fora Research Project

We have begun the field season and therefore Sunday was a busy day spent going over the modern bone collection and the hominin casts that are at the TBI field station. Francis and Meave Leakey ran an ...

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