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DISPATCH 04: Things to Come
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KOOBI FORA, Kenya

While the excavation is in progress at Ileret, the second half of the field team has been
looking for fossils, based out of the research camp at Koobi Fora. Each day we drive out to the fossil exposures and walk slowly over the fossil exposures to the north of the Koobi Fora Ridge. This year we are armed with hand held field computers into which the data is entered in the field and downloaded through a docking station back in the camp in the evenings. These hand held computers greatly facilitate data collection and have reduced the time spent on the laptops in the afternoons updating records. As usual each fossil found by the team in the field is recorded, photographed and given a GPS point. This allows the fossil to be relocated. All the field data is compiled into a main database on a daily basis.

Patrick Gathogo is conducting detailed geological studies of the lake basin as part of his PhD thesis. His work is extremely significant in our understanding of depositional environments in which fossils were preserved as well as the provenance or age of the fossil sites in which we work. His efforts will be an enormous contribution to the 40 years of research conducted here so far.

This season over 240
specimens have been found so far and include primates, pigs, antelopes, elephants and horses.

 

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