ABSTRACT P.I. Alan Walker SBR-9404813 Alan Walker and Meave Leakey, two very well known and widely respected paleoanthropologists, will excavate a most promising early hominid site at Lake Turkana, Kenya, in this project. This site has already yielded a few scattered hominid reamins from superficial surface collections, and the time period represented in this site currently represents a gap in our knowledge of human evolution. The earliest known hominid fossils date back to 3.6 million years. and these deposits date to 4 million years, getting close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages. ***

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
Application #
9404813
Program Officer
Mark L. Weiss
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1994-07-01
Budget End
1995-06-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1994
Total Cost
$48,419
Indirect Cost
Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218