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Eighth Human Evolution SeriesImage: skull of "Zinjanthropus" a Century after Zinj - Paranthropus boisei in Context The Eighth Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop is being orga... READ MORE |
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Sixth Stony Brook Human Evolution WorkshopRecent Events | Elisabeth Hildebrand | Wednesday, 3 December 2008 Fishers to Herders Workshop explores the last twenty thousand years of human lifeways in Turkana Twenty-two scientists gathered for the Sixth ... READ MORE |
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Dr. Richard Leakey
Welcome to the first issue of the TBI Review, the e-newsletter of the Turkana Basin Institute. The goal of the newsletter is to provide a forum for us at the Turkana Basin Institute to inform both fellow scientists and the general public of recent progress that has been made in fulfilling the three main goals that we have set out to achieve.
First, the Turkana Basin Institute aims to develop an infrastructure to support research in the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya to enable a dramatic increase in the pace of recovery of fossil and archaeological evidence. Second, we aim to train African scientists to participate in this research and to create permanent career opportunities to keep them fully engaged in the international scientific enterprise. Third, we hope to increase the connectivity between Stony Brook University and field research in East Africa. Though we as an institute are young, I believe that the stories contained in this inaugural newsletter demonstrate that we have already made significant steps towards achieving these goals. I hope you will agree. |
Latest News
Origin of Rift Valley EcosystemsLatest | Ellen Miller | Thursday, 18 December 2008  Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems (ORVE) is a research program comprising a number of projects working on both sides of Lake Turkana. Three ORVE projects are currently underway; two on ... READ MORE |
Drilling Deep for Human OriginsLatest | Craig Feibel | Thursday, 20 November 2008  After decades of discussion, the first concrete steps were taken this summer to begin the Scientific Drilling for Human Origins project. A 5 meter cliff section of lake clays exposed along ... READ MORE |
Reconnaissance of Late Cretaceous sediments in the Turkana BasinLatest | Erik Seiffert | Monday, 23 June 2008  There is currently a 40 million-year-long gap in Africa’s vertebrate fossil record, between about 96 and 56 million years ago – an interval during which Africa became isolated from other ... READ MORE |
New Fossils from Lake Turkana Inspire a Revised View of the Evolution of Genus HomoLatest | Scott Bjelland | Monday, 23 June 2008 Two exciting new hominin fossils discovered at Ileret, a remote region east of Lake Turkana, have shed new light on the origins of the human genus Homo.... READ MORE |
TBI Ileret Field Station Fully OperationalLatest | Louise Leakey | Monday, 21 April 2008  View Facility in Google Earth The Turkana Basin Institute field station at Ileret which began in March 2007 about 5 km from the Ileret Center is now fully operational. Ileret is ... READ MORE |
Later Prehistory of West Turkana: 2008 FieldworkLatest | Elisabeth Hildebrand | Thursday, 1 November 2007 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 ... READ MORE |
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Community Outreach
First Day of Dental Camp a SuccessCommunity Outreach Blog | Samia Omar | Thursday, 2 July 2009  Thursday 02 June, 2009 Today marked the first day of the dental camp at Illeret. After unloading the crates early in the morning, the team setup the camp by 10:30 am ... READMORE |
Koobi Fora Research Project
Hominin teeth at the start of the seasonKFRP Blog | Lawrence Nzuve | Wednesday, 17 June 2009  Here is a report from our first few days in the field. We started the season returning to area 10, where we were working in 2007. There were some fossils ... READMORE |
Building TBI
Latest images from the west side camp at TurkwelBuilding TBI Blog | Louise Leakey | Monday, 22 June 2009  ... READMORE |
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"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?May 19, 2009—Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins. Full Story |
A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree - NYTimes.comSTONY BROOK, N.Y. — Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown... Full Story |