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Koobi Fora Research Project

The Koobi Fora Research Project's continued research in the Turkana Basin seeks to further the global understanding of human origins and the context in which it occurred, through the recovery and investigation of new fossil material from deposits in the Turkana Basin.

From Area 129

Posted by Louise Leakey | 16 July 2010

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.

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Recent KFRP blog posts:

07.06.2010

Excavation progress

by Louise Leakey
Final week of first excavation in progress for the Koobi Fora Research Project. Read full post
03.06.2010

Field season begins again for 2010

by Louise Leakey
With the generous support of National Geographic Society Missions programs we are back to the field again. Read full post

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Last season's (2009) blog posts:

Preparation for the Field

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 07 Jun 2009

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... Read more

Hominin teeth at the start of the season

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 17 Jun 2009

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... Read more

Croc and hippo in sandstone

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 11 Jul 2009

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... Read more

Giant Crocodile Skull

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 11 Jul 2009

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... Read more

John does it again

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 11 Jul 2009

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... Read more

Three hominins in a single morning

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 02 Aug 2009

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... Read more

From the three seive sites

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 09 Aug 2009

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... Read more

The field season takes a break

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 07 Sep 2009

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... Read more

Wet sieving continues

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 22 Oct 2009

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... Read more

Fossil preparation training gets underway

Posted by: Lawrence Nzuve | 10 Nov 2009

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... Read more