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Please pass on to anyone who might be interested in these opportunities.

Paul

Paul Lane

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Sent: 27 January 2012 20:14
To: Koobi Fora Field School List
Subject: Koobi Fora Field School in Paleoanthropology

To my colleagues in Paleoanthropology, Archaeology, and Geology,

	I have the great pleasure to inform you that the Koobi Fora Field
School
for Paleoanthropology will be running in 2012. This program is a joint
venture by Rutgers University and the National Museums of Kenya, and this
year will be the 16th field season (June 15th to July 25th). This year
promises to be one the most exciting sessions yet with expanded
instruction and several excavations in key areas planned. In addition to
the Koobi Fora Field School we also have a field school that focuses on
Primatology and Wildlife Ecology which runs in August in Kenya.  If you
have any students who might be interested (in either programs) we would
be grateful for you letting them know about these unique and exciting
programs.

The Koobi Fora Field School introduces students from various educational
backgrounds and skill levels to the multidisciplinary field of
Paleoanthropology with exercises in ecology, archaeology, paleontology and
geology. Through the cooperation of the Mugie Ranch, we camp for one week
on a Rhino game preserve in a modern African environment. Students are
exposed to the animals and vegetation of a savanna ecosystem that
parallels the Plio-Pleistocene hominin environment of Koobi Fora. We then
travel several hundred miles north to the Koobi Fora base camp on the
eastern shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The students spend 4
weeks in one of the richest fossil-bearing localities in the world, where
they will learn how to excavate Plio-Pleistocene archaeological sites,
identify mammalian and hominin fossils, map geological features and
classify lithic technologies.

For more than 15 years I have had the pleasure of leading this unique
field program and working with some of the most interesting scholars in
the world of human prehistory, along with a host of undergraduate and
graduate students. These students who participate and make this field
school possible are the driving force for the program and their efforts
make me proud each year. This field school curriculum is driven by the
research being undertaken by international multi-disciplinary teams of
researchers and students. Therefore, the students on the fieldschool
participate in ongoing paleoanthropology research in two time intervals,
2.2 million years ago (Plio-Pleistocene) and the more recent Holocene
interval of the last 12,000 years. Experts from the National Museums of
Kenya and Rutgers University, as well as other universities, provide
instruction in lectures, labs, and within the context of on-going field
projects.

	This is surely a unique opportunity for students and we would be
very
appreciative if you would inform your students about the field school.
The Koobi Fora Field School is open to students from all universities.
Applications are made through Rutgers Study Abroad office or you can
contact me directly [http://studyabroad.rutgers.edu/]. The web page for
the Field School is updated regularly at
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~kffs/ . I have attached a flyer which can be
posted and an article about the field school.

Thank you for your time.


With best wishes,
Dr. Jack Harris
Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Co-Director of Field Schools, Kenya




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BioArCh (S-Block)
Department of Archaeology
University of York
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