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Tag Archives: excavation
Anna’s Blog: Final Day in Olduvai (6/27)
Hello World, On this final day in Olduvai Gorge we did a mixture of things. We started the day by collecting some fossilized long bones in a gully of the gorge. The goal of collecting the long bones was to … Continue reading
Rose’s Blog Day 10–I Dig You ;)
Finally, what you all have been waiting for: the day that I discover a new hominid fossil. Well, not yet, probably not ever, but today was our first day of getting down in the dirt and excavating. Something about it … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Alcelaphini, dustanddustanddust, excavation, masaai market, rose, site BK, taphonomic bias profiling
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Marlo’s Blog – 06/26/24 Chat, Is This What Heaven Is Like?
Today was a good day because today I got to dig. On a fateful day in 2012, my uncle, who was probably just sick of hearing me yap, handed me his iPhone and let me play the new game he’s … Continue reading
Alex’s Blog: Last Day at Olduvai (6/27)
This morning, I defied all odds and learned an entire year’s-worth of content in less than an hour. Don’t believe me? Good, because I certainly didn’t learn everything, but I got the basics. Dr. Manuel taught us how to identify … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Alex, bone survey, bones, Ecomorphology, excavation, fossils, Gulley, Large Felids, paleohabitat reconstruction
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Kacey’s Blog: Day 9 6/26/24
Hi blog. Today was amazing! After breakfast, we headed over to the BK dig site. Professor Dominguez Rodrigo informed us that we would be participating in the actual excavation! We all claimed individual square plots, grabbed a flathead screwdriver, bucket, … Continue reading
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Tagged BK, calciumcarbonate, excavation, flatheadscrewdriver, fossils, hipporibs, leakeys, megafauna, sediment, stonetools, vertebra
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Kacey’s Blog: Day 6 6/23/24
Hi blog. Yesterday, we visited an Olduvai Gorge excavation site. It was so cool!! Finally, we’re getting right into the biological anthropology / archaeology side of this trip! We started the morning with a tour of the Olduvai Gorge museum … Continue reading
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Tagged bipedalism, bones, excavation, fossils, lodge, mioceneapes, stonetools
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Caroline’s Blog: June 26: Reconnecting to my Hominid Ancestors (I used a stone tool)
Pelarovis were quite large and horned Silvetherium was, by large osocones, adorned Parmularius ate grass with teeth built to last Not Giraffids, though, who browsed between thorns Quote of the day: “The hat man is a giraffe” Today we … Continue reading
