About the LPWT Project

"This project is the first stage in a long-term investigation of causes, processes, and consequences of early Holocene subsistence intensification in the Turkana area...Lake Turkana is famous for its contribution to research on the early phases of human evolution. Research on the Holocene of West Turkana will build a conceptual bridge between this remote prehistoric past and the development of livelihoods that sustain people on Lake Turkana's shores today...."

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Select one of the icons on the map at right to view highlights from our 2007 reconnaissance expedition to West Turkana »