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