2019 Season Under the shade at lunchtime The WTAP team in silhouette A meeting with the Chief A lonely palm tree in the middle of a sandy dry riverbed Steps cut into the hill to access the excavation A mural at the Nariokotome dispensary as WTAP members wait for results WTAP team on survey A test pit revealing Acheulean tools at Nadung’a Busy times at the excavation Dramatic skies over Lomekwi geology Excavation tools Sundown at Nariokotome town On survey for lithics Preparing the trench to re-open the excavation Life sprouts among burned surface rocks Finalising the camp gear inside the lorry before heading out to the field Desert rains tempt out desert flowers A rainstorm brings problems for one of our excavation trenches Looking north towards the Acheulean sites of the Nadung’a Site Complex A new site being excavated into a steep hillside A boy with a large pot waits for his grandmother to come home Acheulean stone tools found at Nadung’a Excavation underway on a steep hillside A weathered Acheulean handaxe found on the surface Young girls collecting firewood Digging underway in a difficult hillside location The soft beauty of Turkana desert flowers Surface finds like this handle litter the ground at Nadung’a Nariokotome town Topographer Vincent at the end of a hard day Discoidal core near Nadung’a A small Acheulean core used to produce flakes Sonia making a phonecall in Katiko town Nadung’a flycamp at night View of Lake Turkana and North Island Children watching the camp set-up Fresh tarmac on the road north, into the field from Lodwar The real scale of the Turkana landscape Bags of charcoal for sale The night sky at the Turkana Basin Institute, Turkwel Goats take shade in the mid-day sun Waiting to start the excavation Lomekwi geology A Turkana woman waits at the Nariokotome dispensary The colours and crazy layout of the Lodwar Lodge Watching as the excavation gets underway A landscape view of the work A new Acheulean site discovered at Nadung’a Students on survey Starting the dig Unless otherwise stated, all images ©Nicholas Taylor/MPK-WTAP Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...