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