These photograph are from initial fieldwork in Glenn Conroy's latest research project, focusing on Plio-Pleistocene deposits in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia. The project is a collaboration with Prof. Horst Seidler, of the Institute of Human Biology at the University of Vienna. They have worked together for a number of years on CT scanning of fossil hominids (e.g., Conroy et al. 1998, 2000). The Issa guards are necessary because it is a very remote region in the the Somali region of Ethiopia and because of potential hostile interactions with neighboring tribal groups.
References
GC Conroy, GW Weber, H. Seidler, PV Tobias, A. Kane, B. Brunsden (1998) Endocranial capacity in an early hominid cranium from STerkfontein, South Africa. Science 280:1730-1731
GC Conroy, GW Weber, H. Seidler, W. Recheis, D. zur Nedden, J. Haile Mariam (2000) Endocranial capacity of the Bodo cranium determined from Three-Dimensional computed tomography. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 113:111-118
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