The Koobi Fora Field School is a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to learn the basic principles and field methods of paleoanthropology on location at the most productive and spectacular early hominid region in the world - Koobi Fora.

It is a program dedicated to hands-on introductory training in all the disciplines within paleoanthropology:

• paleontology,
• archaeology,
• geology,
• taphonomy, and
• ecology.

The Field School offers one session in 2008 (June 16--July 27, 2008) conducted by research staff at the National Museums of Kenya and faculty from Rutgers University.

This session includes four weeks at Koobi Fora in northern Kenya, the site made famous by Richard Leakey and his colleagues in the 1970's for finds of ancient hominids and archaeology bearing on our understanding of human origins.

Also included is one week in the Laikipia area on the slopes of Mount Kenya to study savanna landscapes and wildlife ecology. The research staff of the National Museums of Kenya and the Rutgers faculty enhance the program with their extensive experience in these two well-known areas of Kenya.

Enrollment is limited. Applications are taken on a rolling basis and should be submitted as soon as possible. Applicants will be screened on the basis of academic records.