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Hope in the Midst of Misery

How does one build a school in a place where there are no teachers? Plant a fruit where there is no water? Or heal a patient where there is no doctor? With "hope" is the answer I got today while...

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Building TBI Blog

The west side building progress-October 08

Two of the big buildings were under construction this month- the student dormitory block (which will consits of two dormitories, toilets and a social area) and the refectory/kitchen block which will contain stores, large kitchen and a dining area which...

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Reconnaissance of Late Cretaceous sediments in the Turkana Basin

There is currently a 40 million-year-long gap in Africa’s vertebrate fossil record, between about 96 and 56 million years ago – an interval during which Africa became isolated from other...

Later Prehistory Reconnaissance of West Turkana

In July 2007 a team from Stony Brook University conducted a reconnaissance in West Turkana of sites in the Galana Boi Formation dating to, 9000-4000 years ago. During this period...

New Fossils from Lake Turkana Inspire a Revised View of the Evolution of Genus Homo

Two exciting new hominin fossils discovered at Ileret, a remote region east of Lake Turkana, have shed new light on the origins of the human genus Homo. The fossils were...

"Diversity in Australopithecus": The 4th Annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium

Convened by Richard Leakey and organized by the Turkana Basin Institute, the 4th Annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium was held on September 25th before a sold out audience in...

TBI Ileret Field Station Fully Operational

View Facility in Google Earth The Turkana Basin Institute field station at Ileret which began in March 2007 about 5 km from the Ileret Center is now fully operational....