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Kacey’s Blog: Day 10 6/27/24
Hi blog. We spent the morning today learning about the different bone modifications that can be made by carnivores and hominids. Professor Dominguez Rodrigo showed us a couple of examples of punctures, furrowing, scoring, and pitting on bones. These are … Continue reading
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Tagged carnivore, greenbreaks, hominid, laundryday, microstriations, mongoose, oldupai, stonetools, survey
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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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