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