... but thereafter mounted their own multinational and multidisciplinary expeditions to the Kenyan part of the Lake Turkana basin. The Koobi Fora sand spit on the east side of the lake served as the National Museums' field headquarters for the Koobi Fora Research Project on that side of the lake, the subsequent West...

...- tion of its elephants. Today, Lake Rudolf is known not only for its spectacu- lar beauty but also for its myriads of fossils, buried in layered deposits on the lake’s eastern shores. Here, at Koobi Fora,2 the world’s largest hominid research site, scientists have since the late 1960s been exploring...

... A few years ago, several of us were sitting in the shade of the dining banda of Richard Leakey’s research station at Koobi Fora, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. We were listening to the oldest man there, Sir Vivian Fuchs. Sir Vivian, known as ‘‘Bunny had led an expedition to Lake Turkana...

... of the Central Nile and the Sahara-Sahel Belt. African Archaeological Review 20 : 25 -58. Nelson, C. 1994 The Work of the Koobi for a Field School at the Jarigole Pillar Site. Kenya Past and Present , no. 27: 49 -63. Owen, R. B., J. W. Barthelme, R. W. Renaut, and A. Vincens 1981 Palaeolimnology...