The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. Return to TBI Posts posts
World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' Image: Skull of Homo floresiensis. Photo credit: Michael J. Morwood. As the debate rages on about whether Homo floresiensis – [...]
Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to the buildings now and the plastering has begun on the outside walls. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to [...]
Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems (ORVE) is a research program comprising a number of projects working on both sides of Lake Turkana. Three ORVE projects are currently underway; two on the west side of the lake (Losodok/Nakwai, Tab Rasmussen) and (Kalodirr/Moruorot, James Rossie), and one on the east (Buluk, Ellen Miller). You can also view [...]
The objective of this project is to obtain sediment cores, covering key time intervals, from several of the world’s most important fossil hominin and early Paleolithic artifact sites, located in Kenya and Ethiopia; ultimately the information gleaned from cores will address questions about the role of environmental forces in shaping human evolution. You can also [...]
During the summer of 2008, Turkana Basin Institute scientists Erik Seiffert and Joe Sertich joined scientists from the National Museums of Kenya for a return trip to the Turkana Basin to search for more complete fossils from known sites, and to explore for new fossil localities in a series of sediments exposed west of Lake [...]