The Chronicle
The Koobi Fora Research Project announce the discovery of new hand and foot fossils of Paranthropus, a distant cousin to humans, significantly extending our understanding of the evolution of tool use and bipedality within the human family tree
The team was scaled back in December as most of the team stopped to have a break. The camp was taken down and the vehicles had a service in Mwangombes workshop at the Turkana Basin
Back in the field with a new season's energy: rebuilding camp, a windstorm that nearly wrecked the dining tent, a monkey cranium with all its teeth, and the first in situ fossil from Section 25B.
Louise and Jeniffer visit Lee Berger's caves in South Africa — then Lee visits us. Plus: learning fossil preparation at TBI, a Land Rover resurrection, and a possible phalanx from the hominin level.
A new camp, a broken Land Rover, rain that stopped play, the first fossil from the excavation — and an evening watching Cave of Bones ahead of Lee Berger's visit.