Briana's Travels

We finished up our first full work week in Kenya today! We're finally getting into a good groove with morning and evening routines, and actually got to the museum at 9am today which is my goal. :) Speaking of the museum, I'm finally going to tell you a little more about my museum research here. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm studying fossils from the site of Olorgesailie in southern Kenya. The fossils I'm studying come from over a dozen excavations from a time horizon that's just under a million years old (992,000 years old, to be more precise). I've been studying these fossils for more than 10 years, because there's a lot of them to examine!! I have over 100,000 fossils in my database. Most of them are small and unidentifiable, but occasionally I find one that I can tell what kind of bone it is, and even what kind of animal it came from. My data collection set up: trays of fossils, a small laptop, bright lights, calipers to take measurements