Updates from a virtual lab of digitized fossils and tools found in Africa, with other news and views about paleoanthropology and archaeology.
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Harvard Field School students, guided by Dr. Craig Feibel, explored Lothagam, one of Africa’s key Miocene sites in #Turkana learning how rocks reveal floods, eruptions, and help date fossils and past ecosystems.
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Many girls in #Turkana miss school monthly due to lack of #MenstrualProducts. We support these young women with reusable kits, fights stigma & partners with schools & organizations to keep them learning with dignity.
🔗Learn more on our outreach programs: bit.ly/4iZIZCn
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Can’t make it in person? Tune in via livestream on YouTube:
🔗 lnkd.in/dDxeygWg
See you there, or online!
#DisruptingTheNarrative #Turkana #Poetry
Here’s a little sneak peek of how our “Disrupting the Nature Narrative” retreat in Turkana went!
Come meet the poets and hear about their experience during an afternoon of poetry and conversation at @chechebooks
Date: April 5th at 4PM
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Here’s a little sneak peek of how our “Disrupting the Nature Narrative” retreat in Turkana went!
Come meet the poets and hear about their experience during an afternoon of poetry and conversation at @chechebooks
Date: April 5th at 4PM
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Why is Kenya’s Lake Turkana considered the epicenter of human evolution? Join Dr. Louise Leakey for an enlightening lecture to learn more
🗓️ April 17, 2025
🕕 6:00–7:00 PM ET
📍 Geological Lecture Hall,Harvard University / Virtual Option
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3G9mUma
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Ever wondered what it’s like to camp at one of the richest fossil sites in the Turkana Basin?
@stonybrooku student Katie Swartvagher shares a glimpse into field life, fossils, stars & deep history.
👉 Read more: bit.ly/4jQs5qd
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How do you grow watermelons on Arid land? At TBI’s Ileret campus, farming meets innovation. With no grocery stores for miles, the team grows greens, herbs and yes, watermelons, to feed researchers, students, and staff. Sustainability in action.
👉 bit.ly/3ZNFZBx
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Taking learning beyond the classroom, the 2025 Harvard Field School at TBI explored Lake Turkana’s Kerio Delta studying sediment, plants, and fish. Talks with fishermen higlighted how climate and overfishing are reshaping life on the lake. #TBI #HarvardFieldSchool #LakeTurkana
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Check out the TMP's newest paper, led by Daniel Green, Tim Cleland and Kevin Uno with many other TMP members, on Miocene proteins in fossil teeth! What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics! bit.ly/OldProteome
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Now the US election has happened, there are fewer political posts drowning all else - let's fill it by amazing palaeoscience ones!
A face from 10,000 years ago, still covered in shells from a beach from Lake #Turkana, #Kenya
@museumsofkenya @turkanabasin #FossilFriday
Baringo scientists discover 300,000-year-old tools.
standardmedia.co.ke/sci-tech…
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Paranthropus skeleton or not? You decide.
"Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya" by Ward et al.
50 days free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hpvp…
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⭐️ICYMI - Bahru Zinaye Asegahegn, Georgina Luti, Venanzio Munyaka, and Husna Mashaka have been named as the Spring 2023 Francis H. Brown African Scholars for their work exploring #geology and #botany related to human origins.
leakeyfoundation.org/spring-…
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Mary Leakey discovered the fossil now known as OH 5 #OnThisDay in 1959. She called it "Dear Boy," but it was popularly known as Nutcracker Man or Zinj.
ALT A model of the skull OH 5 - Paranthropus boisei
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The gorgeous fossil named Zinjanthropus was discovered #OnThisDay in 1959 by Mary Leakey. The big teeth of this 1.8 million-year-old relative found in Tanzania earned it the nickname Nutcracker Man.
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[#Geodiversitas] First in situ middle Pliocene cercopithecoid fossils from the Palaeokarst System of Bolt’s Farm (South Africa)
✒️ Dominique GOMMERY et al. @le_CR2P
🔗 geodiversitas.com/45/5
#FossilFriday #pliocene #Primates #middlepliocene #fossils #paleontology
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Last week a handful of @TurkanaMiocene project members presented our work at the @turkanabasin and @stonybrooku Richard E. Leakey memorial conference. Here are some highlights in order of appearance… 1/many
Join us as we honor the life and legacy of paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician Richard Leakey, at the “Africa: The Human Cradle” conference from June 5-9, 2023.
Registration is required: bit.ly/3ODiSot
ALT Six Decades: The SEarch for Fossils at Lake Turkana. Dr. Louise Leakey. Paleontologist, Anthropologist, Stony Brook Research Professor. Monday, June 5 - 5pm Staller Center FREE Open to Public. Three logos at the bottom. Includes a headshot of Dr. Louise Leakey.
ALT Dr. Louise Leakey headshot outside while wearing a off-white shirt.
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We’re grateful to @TheLeakeyFndtn for making this course happen, and for the funding and/or support of others including @northernlimitpt, @kevin_t_uno, @isotopogrog, @soilenjoyer, @turkanabasin, @TheWCS, @LamontEarth and @columbiaclimate, and to @mpalalive for hosting us.
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Excited to have just taught a (sometimes trilingual) class on stable isotopes in climate & ecology w amazing co-instructors Daeun Lee of @MichiganEarth & John Gitonga at @mpalalive. We combined lectures, lab exercises, data analysis, & field work on the N. flank of Mt Kenya.
