Archaeologist to Talk about Lake Turkana: Kenya’s “Cradle of Mankind”
Commonly referred to by anthropologists as the Cradle of Mankind, Kenya holds an unsurpassed record of human prehistory spanning over 27 million years. Archaeologist Diana Rose Angelo will take us on a journey along the shores of Lake Turkana, Kenya, a UNESCO World Heritage site. During the summer of 2017, Angelo, an archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service, attended the Turkana Basin Institute to participate in a workshop with a host of scientists including Richard and Meave Leakey, primatologist Lawrence Martin, geologists Frank Brown and Craig Feibel, and evolutionary biologist Dino Martins. She will talk about her travel to famous paleoanthropological discovery sites, the geological areas and biological ecosystems around Lake Turkana, and the traditional cultures of the people who make this desert landscape their home.
Diana Angelo is the district archaeologist for the Jessieville/Winona/ Fourche District of the Ouachita National Forest. She also teaches biological anthropology at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She received her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Diana Rose Angelo of U.S. Forest Service will give the presentation: Lake Turkana: Kenya’s “Cradle of Mankind” at School of Forestry and Natural Resources Conference Room at UAM, Tuesday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m.