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- Discovering hominins
- Initially, we thought that the sediments around an area adjoining the Turkwel river near the small settlement of Kang'athota would be early Holocene, i.e. around 11'000 years old. However, after sensationally discovering two robust partial frontals, the front part of the skull, during an initial survey, we knew that the sediments in the area must be much older than thought. Subsequent...
- Traveling back to the Frontier
- Traveling back again to the Turkana Basin felt great. The Basin is a frontier on many fronts. It is home to pastoralists, who eke out a living from a region characterized by arid scrubland and desert. It also represents the leading edge of scientific research into the origins of humans and the evolutionary history of modern fauna. Nowhere else on the planet is the fossil record of the Pliocene...
- National Museums of Kenya
- The National Museums of Kenya (NMK), established in 1910, is one of Africa's leading institutions for scholarship, research and outreach in paleontology, archeology, ethnography, botany, zoology, biodiversity, conservation and tropical medicine. Its mandate includes the management of all major museums, sites and monuments of the Republic of Kenya. It is the custodian of world's largest...