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