Current Projects Associated with TBI

Island Africa Project

The Island Africa Project is a consortium of American and African vertebrate paleontologists and geologists working together to fill this major gap in our understanding of African prehistory through collaborative paleontological and geological exploration...

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Later Prehistory of West Turkana

The Later Prehistory of West Turkana (LPWT) team is a multidisciplinary group of researchers studying human behavioral change in West Turkana during the past 10,000 years. The team is exploring a wide range of interests, including intensive fishing-hunting-gathering, early herding, and the development of complex societies around Turkana....

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Koobi Fora Research Project

The Koobi Fora region has, over the last 35 years of exploration, produced a wealth of paleontological, geological and archaeological data. Research in the area has revealed a complex history of volcanism, tectonics and sedimentary cycles preserving fluvial and lake phases of the basin. Some 16,000 fossil specimens have been collected from the Turkana basin, almost 10,000 from the Koobi Fora Region...

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Omo-Kibish Project

The Omo Kibish paleoanthropological site was first discovered in 1967 during a joint exploration by the “International Paleoanthropological Research Expedition to the Omo Valley.” After almost four decades of research hiatus, a new multidisciplinary team from the United States, Australia and Ethiopia has recently revisited the Kibish Formation and successfully refined the geology, chronology, paleontology and archaeology of the sites.....

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