Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Woranso-Mille Project: February 28, 2007

February 28, 2007
We received a CD from Liz containing images of the research process and the environment in which the researchers are working. Here is a sampling of those images:

Trying to piece together a fossil Dust from sieving
Collecting fossils after surveying a site Once a hominid site is discovered, the first step is to line up and crawl across the site looking for any pieces of fossil.
Yohannes hands off a piece of an almost-complete horn core that he is excavating. Putting a plaster jacket on the fossils to help protect them when they remove it from the field.

This research was financially supported by the National Science Foundation, The Leakey Foundation, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, and The National Geographic Society.
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