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Koobi Fora Research Project
For the last 40 years the Koobi Fora Research Project has redefined the way we view our origins. Since 1968, research and excavations in the fossil-rich exposures around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya have led to the recovery of a wealth of paleontological and archaeological material, including some of the most significant hominid finds every discovered.
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Later Prehistory of West Turkana Project
During the early Holocene period the people living around Turkana undertook two major innovations. First, around. 9000 years ago, they developed an intensive fishing and hunting adaptation, one that left behind barbed bone harpoons, flexed burials, and some of the earliest pottery in East Africa.
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Omo Kibish Faunal Project
Beginning in 1967 and continuing until the present day, our work at the Kibish site near the Omo river in Ethiopia has revealed a wealth of information about the earliest Homo sapiens and the origins of modern human culture.
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