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2018 Season

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

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