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2018 Season

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

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