15 days to go!
Proud to keep advancing research + training #OldupaiGorge

🙏
University of Dodoma
+
University of Calgary

Team's fired up,
Some already in-country,
others landing soon:

Abel Shikoni
Maria Soto
@aloycem.bsky.social
Raquel Hernando
AbdallahMohamed
StephenMagohe
Ayoola Oladele

Excited to see the University of Dodoma
leading research at Oldupai Gorge
(Tanzania),
collaborating globally
to explore the origins of humanity
#UNESCO
#WorldHeritageSite

Cheers to a new chapter of discovery 🎉
@udomofficial
#HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology

Big thanks to
University of Dodoma
and
University of Calgary
for backing our project and permit
to uncover early human life
at the cradle of humankind
in Eastern Africa

#OldupaiGorge

Stay tuned for discoveries ahead!
#Paleoanthropology
#HumanEvolution

Aloyce Mwambwiga defended his doctoral thesis today!

He is a scholar I respect for his consistency and integrity, even as we navigated the most extreme challenges

There’s now a new phytolith lab in Tanzania, equipped.
He will be directing it, for the science to be practiced locally

Cheers!!

Groundbreaking research
on Homo erectus
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#OldupaiGorge
BED III:

Using sedimentology, geochemistry, Ar/Ar dating, biome simulations, fire history, paleobotany, fauna, and lithics, we reveal how hominins navigated extreme environments in northern Tanzania 1 Ma

A transformative initiative
to foster capacity building in Paleosciences!

Eastern African Network for PaleoBioGeoChem (PaleoBGC):

🔬 Nairobi: Raman (May 5-6)
📊 Addis Ababa: XRF (May 12-13)
🔍 Dodoma: Thin-sectioning (May 20-21)