Elephant Logo The Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site
A Joint Venture of the Smithsonian Institution
and the National Museums of Kenya

The Field Team for the Summer 2004 Expedition

Site A11-10 Trench Rick Potts
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Muteti Nume
Alison Brooks
John Yellen
Jennifer Clark
Bernie Owen
Alan Deino
Warren Sharp
Lynn Copes
Amanda Henry
Jillani Ngalla


The Field Crew
|Geology Field Course Students

Since 1985, researchers from diverse fields have come to Olorgesailie, Kenya, through the collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museums of Kenya, in an effort to better understand the habitat in which our early human ancestors evolved. An understanding of habitat, and human interaction with it, is crucial to the better understanding of what it is that makes us human.

This section is intended to give you the opportunity to get to know the lives and interests of the people who make up our research team.


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