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2018 Season

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

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