Excavation tools
A rainstorm brings problems for one of our excavation trenches
View of Lake Turkana and North Island
Busy times at the excavation
Digging underway in a difficult hillside location
The WTAP team in silhouette
Dramatic skies over Lomekwi geology
Finalising the camp gear inside the lorry before heading out to the field
Surface finds like this handle litter the ground at Nadung’a
Students on survey
A test pit revealing Acheulean tools at Nadung’a
WTAP team on survey
Topographer Vincent at the end of a hard day
Desert rains tempt out desert flowers
Under the shade at lunchtime
Goats take shade in the mid-day sun
Life sprouts among burned surface rocks
Preparing the trench to re-open the excavation
A landscape view of the work
A boy with a large pot waits for his grandmother to come home
Young girls collecting firewood
Sundown at Nariokotome town
A lonely palm tree in the middle of a sandy dry riverbed
A new Acheulean site discovered at Nadung’a
A Turkana woman waits at the Nariokotome dispensary
The real scale of the Turkana landscape
A small Acheulean core used to produce flakes
A meeting with the Chief
Lomekwi geology
Nariokotome town
The colours and crazy layout of the Lodwar Lodge
On survey for lithics
Sonia making a phonecall in Katiko town
A mural at the Nariokotome dispensary as WTAP members wait for results
Nadung’a flycamp at night
A weathered Acheulean handaxe found on the surface
Excavation underway on a steep hillside
The soft beauty of Turkana desert flowers
Acheulean stone tools found at Nadung’a
Watching as the excavation gets underway
The night sky at the Turkana Basin Institute, Turkwel
Fresh tarmac on the road north, into the field from Lodwar
Children watching the camp set-up
Waiting to start the excavation
Discoidal core near Nadung’a
Bags of charcoal for sale
Steps cut into the hill to access the excavation
A new site being excavated into a steep hillside
Looking north towards the Acheulean sites of the Nadung’a Site Complex
Starting the dig
West Turkana Archaeological Project 