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2018 Season

I was taking this photo in the middle of nowhere when a local lady came walking over the horizon
Hotel room bathroom at the Lodwar Lodge
A typical Turkana house under construction
Echwa survey zone from the air
In situ Acheulean lithics
A study of feet
Lodwar nights
Down-tools at lunchtime, when the excavation becomes suddenly silent
Sunset afterglow near Lomekwi 3
Daoudi, Ali and Mzee near Lomekwi 3
Long shadows at camp
A weathered Acheulean biface on the surface
Lodwar Lodge
A beautiful Acheulean handaxe (weathered)
Young boy playing with a plastic drum
Jenna Anderson at our Acheulean flycamp
Excavators Benjamin, Mzee, Veronica and Charles (L-R)
Sunset
Stars and a water pump turbine
Ready to takoff from the dry lakebed on Air Turkana
View from Air Turkana on the return to Nairobi
Student Evan Wilson
Excavation test trench with car and Lomekwi 3 in the background
At the local dispensary (medical centre)
A typical Turkana church
Nicholas, Jason and students Evan and Jenna climb a hill to get phone network
A typical Turkana landscape
Ali Mwanza at our 6-person flycamp near Nariokotome
A white cow eating trash in Lodwar
A surface biface near Nariokotome
Milky Way from TBI Turkwel
Lodwar colours by night
A fresh biface eroding from
A view from the car
Returning to the rains of Nairobi after 6 weeks
The scale of Turkana
The zig-zag of a lagga through sediments near Lomekwi 3, with sandrine in the distance
A Turkana dispensary (medical centre)
The Milky Way
On of our local Turkana helpers with typical facial scarification
Lodwar nightlife
An ants eye view of the excavation
The 2018 fieldcrew
At the local dispensary in Kataboi
Kids in Lodwar
Distant ridges in silhouette
The moment of contact!
Dinnertime at TBI Turkwel
Surveying for lithics near
Driving 3 hours through the night to hospital with a sick team-member
A meeting of minds 1,8 million years apart - Sammy with a cast of the Turkana boy near Nariokotome
Anyone need a Yamaha keyboard?
Small Office, Home Office
Heavy excavation work
The fieldschool have found something interesting on survey
Phonolite lithics (blue) eroding from sediments near Kaitio
Students Evan Wilson and Jenna Anderson surveying near Lomekwi 3
Student Evan Wilson resting
Day one, first breakdown
Red, Amber and Green poolplayers at the Lodwar Lodge
Goats in line near Lomekwi 3
Total lunar eclipse of 2018
At camp during a total lunar eclipse
Monument to the Turkana boy at Nariokotome, where the fossils were recoveredJPG
Lodwar
Stars over Lodwar
No-one around for miles and then 4 people within 2 metres
The backstreets of Lodwar
The flip-flops really tie the excavation trench together
Lothagam viewed from the air
Typical geology in the Lomekwi area
Excavation
Unless otherwise stated, all images ©Nicholas Taylor/MPK-WTAP

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