Studying Local Stratigraphy
We have just finished the first week of the Field School's geology module, taught by Dr. Chris Lepre of Rutgers University. Studying geology means [...]
Richard Leakey biopic announced; Angelina Jolie to direct
Richard Leakey made headlines around the world in 1989 when a stockpile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in Nairobi National Park. [...]
Cute Goats and (less cute) Ticks!
The TBI Fall 2014 Field School students visited a livestock boma (enclosure) this past week to learn more about goats, grazing and the ecology [...]
Football at Nakweperit Primary School
During the Field School, students have class Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off for rest and relaxation. Often, Dr. Martins will organize Sunday activities [...]
Meave Leakey to be honored at human evolution symposium
On 26-27 September 2014 at Toulouse, France, in the symposium The African Human Fossil Record. This public event, open to researchers and students in [...]
Visit to the Kerio Delta
The TBI Field School students visited the Kerio Delta a few days ago to get a first glimpse of the complex freshwater ecology and [...]
Our First Lab Exercise!
Hello from TBI-Turkwel! Monday marked the start of classes in the first module of the Fall 2014 TBI Field School, Ecology of the Turkana [...]
Exploring the African Savannah!
The Turkana Basin Institute's Origins Field School started off this week with the students exploring the African Savannah and meeting some of the amazing [...]
Fall 2014 Origins Field School Begins!
The Turkana Basin Institute's Fall 2014 Origins Field School has begun. Students arrived in Kenya on the 4th and travelled up to Mpala Ranch [...]
The 12th Human Evolution Workshop at TBI: ‘Handy-man’ in 2014
The twelfth annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop was held at the Turkana Basin Institute’s (TBI) Turkwel research facility, between August 5-9th, 2014. The workshop [...]
TBI mobile clinic report
The TBI mobile clinic is a stakeholder in the provision of health care services to the people of Ileret location/ward. The team engages in [...]
Education support in Ileret
The Turkana Basin Institute has, since its inception of the community outreach program, been supporting needy but bright students in high school from both [...]
TBI to host Homo habilis workshop
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the announcement of Homo habilis, TBI will host the SBU/TBI Human Evolution Workshop XII, entitled “50 years of Homo [...]
TBI and Stony Brook sponsor Peking Man symposium
The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian and the fossil remains uncovered there continue to be a source of evolutionary fascination. The disappearance of these [...]
Turkana-lympics: Rhythmic Dancing (and Singing) and the Closing Ceremony
The last event, and almost certainly the one everyone was looking forward to was the Rhythmic Dancing and Singing. This event was different from [...]
In search of a Miocene Ape, screening, and excavating a 2.5 million year old elephant
During the Human Evolution module the students also got the chance to go on a number of field trips. The first was to the [...]
Fun in the Lab – Teeth as Food Processing Tools
Last week marked the beginning of the last module of the Spring 2014 Field School - Human Evolution, taught by Dr. Matt Skinner from [...]
Stone knapping and goat butchery – How to succeed as an Oldowan hominin
On Thursday, after having collected all the raw materials during the Nariokotome trip, it was time for our young hominins to test their knapping [...]
Camping in Nariokotome
Day 1 On Thursday, the students set off an a camping adventure to Nariokotome. The truck and the pick-up were packed with bed-rolls, tents, [...]
Turkana-lympics – Long jump, Balls of Doum, and Turkana Faces
First and foremost, a belated Happy Mardi Gras! The Students and the TA make impromptu masks for Mardi Gras. Our athletes have [...]