August 18 Saturday
Breakfast was at 6:45am then we headed out to the field to do a few hours of excavation. I am getting used to climbing up into the passenger truck and getting down.
The landscape that we drive by is dotted with lots of acacia trees and every now and then the huts of the villagers.
There are also lots of goats running around, and camels.
The site where we were excavating was where the bones of a rhinoceros from the Miocene period was found in 2015. The Miocene period is 13 million years ago.
Excavation work is long and tedious, one group worked in an area just brushing dirt off carefully and scooping the sand and rocks and possibly bones into a pan, this group had to walk around in socks or bare feet. Another group waited with large sieve trays to shake out the sand and search for possible bone fragments. It was cooler weather when we started then the sun came out from the clouds and it was very hot. We stopped work around 12:15pm and went back to TBI for lunch
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Merrianne: Looks like you have just the right clothing, hat, and shoes for your challenging work in hot dusty conditions! Great photos chronicling your trip.