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Christian
Tryon - Research Sites
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Kapthurin Formation
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Tugen homestead (foreground), Kapthurin Formation sediments
(middle ground beyond the Ndau River streambed), and
Rift Valley escarpment (background), looking south.
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Excavations
at Koimot Locus 1, Kapthurin Fm., Kenya
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Bernard ‘Kanyenze’ Ngeneo, discoverer of KNM-ER1470,
excavating in the Kapthurin Fm
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Boniface Kimeu, discoverer of the type specimen
of
the Miocene ape Equatorius, excavating in
the
Kapthurin Fm.
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Levallois flakes and points, Koimilot Locus 2,
Kapthurin Formation,
Kenya.
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Bedded Tuff Member sediments. More resistant (prominent) layers
are volcanic ash deposits. Artifacts and fauna occur
in the intervening river- and lake-margin sediments.
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Backscattered
electron image of
basaltic
tephra (volcanic ash),
Bedded Tuff Member,
Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.
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Bedded
Tuff Member exposures at the GnJh-15 excavations, wth project
director Sally McBrearty
(U. of Connecticut).
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II.
Kapedo Tuffs
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Survey at the foot of the volcano Silali,
Gregory Rift
Valley,
Kenya.
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Localized
doum palms near the Kapedo hot springs
that
are the source
of the Suguta River. Western rift
escarpment in the background.
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The
Kapedo Tuffs crew, 2006
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Excavations
at Locality 1, Kapedo Tuffs, Kenya.
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Artifacts from the Kapedo Tuffs: Pick, Levallois core, and
refitted flakes.
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III.
Olorgesailie
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Project director Rick Potts (Smithsonian Institution)
standing
on Olorgesaile Formation, Member 11
sediments
at the Mountain
Foot Site.
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Excavation
in progress in Member 14 of the
Olorgesaile Formation. |
IV.
Wasiriya Beds
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Excavations at Nyamita, 2009. Note Lake Victoria in the left background and the steeply titled Miocene deposits underlying the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
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Excavations at Nyamita, 2009. From left to right: Jared Ollelo, Matthew Marchawas, Isayah Onjala, Bernard ‘Kanyenze’ Ngeneo, and Joshua Siembo. |
V.
Kaletepe
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Excavations at Kaletepe Deresi 3, showing parallel
trenches
within the Gölludaĝ volcanic complex.
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Profile
of the upstream excavation, project co-director
Steve Kuhn
(U. of Arizona) for scale.
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Project co-director Ludovic Slimak (CNRS) and Christian Tryon
sampling tephra at Kaletepe
Deresi 3. Note ledge of rhyolite
bedrock at base of the
excavation.
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