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Koobi Fora Field School; Koobi Fora Research Project; The Jade Sea and a treasure-trove of fossils; Age of KBS Tuff in Koobi Fora Formation, East Rudolf, Kenya, article by Curtis, Drake, Cerling & Hampel in Nature 258, 395 – 398 (4 December 1975). Abstract and bibliography are for free.
Koobi Fora Field & Training Program in Paleoanthropology. West Turkana Archaeological Research Project. Swahili Studies and Coastal Peoples of Kenya field school. Early hominin foot morphology based on 1.5 million-year-old Footprints from Ileret Kenya. [11] First occurrence of early Homo in the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya) [12]
Sibiloi National Park is located on the wild and rugged shores of Lake Turkana – the cradle of mankind - Sibiloi is home to important archaeological sites including Koobi Fora where the fossil remains have contributed more to the understanding of human evolution than any other site in the continent.
It also contains fossils in the Koobi Fora deposits which are unique in the world. Lake Turkana National Parks consist of Sibiloi National Park and two islands on Lake Turkana ( Central Island and South Island ).
A fundraising campaign at Hagerman helped send three Kenyan students to the internationally recognized Koobi Fora Field School, managed by George Washington University. Students from all over the world attend to learn East African archaeology, geology, and primatology taught by experts in their respective fields.
In the first expedition to Allia Bay on Lake Turkana, where the Koobi Fora camp came to be located, Leakey hired primarily young researchers. The students included John Harris and Bernard Wood. [35] Also present was a team of Africans under Kamoya: a geochemist, Paul Abel, and a photographer, Bob Campbell. [36] Margaret was the archaeologist.
View of Lake Turkana with the Koobi Fora formations in the background. Lake Turkana is an East African Rift feature. [18] A rift is a weak place in the Earth's crust due to the separation of two tectonic plates, often accompanied by a graben, or trough, in which lake water can collect.
The numerous Koobi Fora sites on the east side of Lake Turkana are now part of Sibiloi National Park. Sites were initially excavated by Richard Leakey, Meave Leakey, Jack Harris, Glynn Isaac and others. Currently the artifacts found are classified as Oldowan or KBS Oldowan dated from 1.9–1.7 Ma, Karari (or "advanced Oldowan") dated to 1.6–1 ...