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2018 Season

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

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