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2018 Season

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

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