The end is nigh….presentations, goat butchering and graduation!
We arrived back to TBI Turkwel Campus from Nariokotome on Tuesday, tired but happy. The day was spent resting and preparing for the final [...]
A Week in the Life of a Field School Student.
Hello everyone my name is Flor Perez and I am from New York. I graduated from Stony Brook University in 2020. I am one [...]
Paleoanthropology in South Turkwel
Hello, I am Tom Otube, an environmental science graduate from Kabarak University. This week we started our Human Evolution module which is taught by [...]
Technical University Astronomy Students in Ileret
Meet Rashid Nafwa and Vincent Okoth, students from the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) working with the telescope at TBI Ileret. Rashid and Vincent [...]
Paleontology in Napudet
Hello! My name is Patricia Nyaga, I just completed my undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology from Maseno University, expecting to [...]
Learning about Vertebrate evolution in Turkana Basin
Hello! I’m Ian McMahon, a graduate student here at TBI. I graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 2020 with a degree in archaeology, specializing in [...]
Geology in Lothagam and Napudet
Hello! My name is Owich and I am an anthropology graduate from the University of Nairobi. We began our second week of geology with [...]
Digging into the geology of the Turkana Basin
Hello, my name is Amelia and I am currently majoring in Anthropology through SUNY Albany in New York. This week we dove into our [...]
Ecology in Turkana
Paivaa/hello! Welcome to another installment of TBI’s field school blog! This weeks blog post is written by me, Onni Purhonen. I’m a biology student [...]
A week of learning about and living in Mpala’s incredible ecosystem.
Personal journal excerpt: It is Tuesday evening; I am relaxing in Mpala research center reminiscing a productive day. I am inspired to write a [...]
Origins Field School Fall 2022 Begins!
Jambo! Welcome to the TBI Origins Field School blog for Fall 2022! My name is Medina Lubisia, the Resident Academic Director for the Fall [...]
Installing a Telescope in Ileret
Hello! We are the DART - OPTiK team, a collaboration of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, STFC UKRI, Technical University of Kenya and [...]
Updates from the field: Discovering new early Pleistocene footprints at Koobi Fora
This July, Kevin Hatala (Chatham University), Neil Roach (Harvard University) and Louise Leakey (Stony Brook University) led a TBI team unearthing a new early [...]
A ‘Tuff’ Journey through Time
On the Eastern side of Lake Turkana, the sediments reveal information about the early evolution of humankind. The sedimentary sequences tell us what it [...]
MIT Evaporative Cooling goes to Ileret
Hi again! It’s Ava and Christine, Mechnical Engineering Undergraduate students from MIT D-Lab. After a beautiful few days spotting animals in the Masai Mara, [...]
Buluk – Geologically Speaking
Pan of the Miocene Dead Elephant Valley in Buluk, Kenya The last stop on the Turkana Miocene Project field tour was [...]
Kamoya Kimeu, legendary Paleontologist, passes away.
We are very sad to share with you the news that Kamoya Kimeu passed away earlier this week after a short spell in hospital [...]
Lothagam Revisited: Searching for the Earliest Turkana Basin Hominins
Molecular studies in the late 1960s demonstrated that humans are closely related to chimpanzees and gorillas, and that all three of these great ape [...]
“Turkana Tools: The Dawn of Technology” comes home.
In December 2021, the West Turkana Archaeological Project (WTAP) in partnership with the Turkana Basin Institute, the National Museums of Kenya, and with support [...]
Evaporative Cooling in the Field
This past weekend we visited the West Turkana Archaeological Project(WTAP) campsite at Lomekwi and had the opportunity to set up and test a charcoal [...]