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Teaching, University of Oxford

Two undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students examining a fossil hominin skull cast during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
An undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology student examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
An undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology student examining a fossil hominin skull cast during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Two undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students examining a row of fossil hominin skull casts during a practical session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Two undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Susana Carvalho and René Bobe teaching undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students during a practical teaching session in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
An undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology student examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Fossil hominin skull casts of Homo rudolfensis (left) and Homo ergaster (right) used during an undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Two undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students examining fossil hominin skull casts during a practical teaching session taught by Susana Carvalho and René Bobe in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright
Susana Carvalho and René Bobe teaching undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology students during a practical teaching session in Trinity Term 2021, photo by Ian Cartwright

Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Vervet Monkeys feeding on the flowers of the Flame Creeper (Combretum microphyllum) in Gorongosa National Park - photograph by Lee Bennett
Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa - Baboon, season 2018. Photo by René Bobe
Paleo-Primate Project, Gorongosa - Baboon, season 2018. Photo by René Bobe
Aerial view of the Urema Rift floodplains, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
Sunset over the floodplain, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
Baboon (Papio sp.) eating algae in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
gorongosa paleoprimate project 2017 students and senior team
The Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa team photographed at one of the campsites for palaeontological surveys in Gorongosa National Park during the 2017 field season
Paleo-Primate Project: 2017 Field Course in Human Evolution: Behaviour, Fossils, and Ecology.
Paleo-Primate Project: 2017 Field Course in Human Evolution: Behaviour, Fossils, and Ecology. Caving techniques.
Finding fossils. Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
A baboon troop in mixed open woodlands at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.
Following baboons in the woodland of Gorongosa
Philippa Hammond following baboons in Gorongosa National Park in 2018, photo by Lynn Lewis-Bevan
Baboons and vervet monkeys around a water source in Gorongosa National Park during 2018, photograph by Lynn Lewis-Bevan
Research Assistant Zoe Melvin setting up camera traps in Gorongosa National Park in 2018, photo by Philippa Hammond
Baboons from the woodland troop in Gorongosa National Park alongside warthogs and antelope species, photo by Philippa Hammond
Lynn Lewis-Bevan following the floodplain troop baboons in Gorongosa National Park, photo by Philippa Hammond
Paleoanthropology labs in 2018 - Oxford, ICEA, Anthropology
Philippa and Lynn working hard to set up camera traps! - Gorongosa Natinoal Park
A juvenile baboon eating bushbuck meat after a kill by an adult male in Gorongosa National Park, photo by Philippa Hammond

Koobi Fora, East Lake Turkana, Kenya

View from Lake Turkana, Koobi Fora, Kenya
Arrival to the Southern end of the Lake Turkana, Koobi Fora, Kenya
Elephant fossil from million years at Koobi Fora. Photo by René Bobe
Excavation at FwJj14E site where fossil footprints and a partial Paranthropus boisei skeleton were discovered (1.5 million years). Photo by René Bobe.
View of Lake Turkana. Photo by René Bobe.
View of Lake Turkana, photo by René Bobe
Susana Carvalho in the petrified forest from the Late Miocene, Lake Turkana Basin, photo by René Bobe

Bossou, Guinea

Adult male nut-cracking with juvenile grooming, at Bossou, Guinea.
Susana Carvalho with colleagues observing chimpanzees in the Bossou outdoor laboratory, Guinea
Joya, a young female chimpanzee, walking bipedally while carrying a pair of stone tools (anvil and hammer). Photo by Jules Doré.
Bossou Annual Party in honour of our ancestors.
Sunsent in Bossou
Bossou research station surrounded by the hills that are home to the wild chimpanzee community.
Suana Carvalho measuring chimpanzee stone tools in the forest of Bossou, photo by Jules Doré
Katarina Almeida-Warren with the Bossou team in Guinea Conakry
Katarina Almeida-Warren recording chimpanzee stone tool sites in Bossou Forest, Guinea Conakry
Bossou village, the home of a very known technological community of chimpanzees - Boussou, Guinea Conakry

Student/Fellow International exchanges/internships/field training

Megan Beardmore-Herd presenting a group project poster on 'Species Diversity in Ferns and Bryophytes in Yakushima, Japan' at Kyoto University in 2018
Megan Beardmore-Herd on Japan's Yakushima Island with other students of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science's training programme for young researchers in collaboration with Kyoto University
Mary Sadid presenting her work in Japan, after the field and lab course in Yakushima island and Kyoto.
Mary Sadid travelled to Japan in November 2018, to participate in the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science's training programme for young researchers.