Leakey Foundation

A member supported organisation committed to research related to human origins.

Koobi Fora Research Project

The Journal of the The Koobi Fora Research Project and Paleoanthropology Research in Northern Kenya.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History is dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it.

Becoming Human

Journey through the story of human evolution in an interactive documentary experience.

Hominidés

Les évolutions de l'homme.

Time-Space Chart

Here we have a comprehensive collection dealing with the history of hominid fossil finds throughout the world, starting with A. ramidus, dating to approximately 4.4 million years before present, and ending with modern day H. sapiens.

The Stone Age Institute

The Stone Age Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to the study of technology, adaptation and evolution in human prehistory.

Paleoanthropology Society

The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature and the organization's central goal is to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological evolution.

Society of Africanist Archaeologist

The Society of Africanist Archaeologists is an organization of archaeologists, researchers from associated disciplines and others who share an interest in African archaeology and African societies.

Archaeology and Human Evolution

This project is the realization of a dream born on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya in the final days of the last millennium. While living and working at Koobi Fora, a common purpose was realized as we pursued the nature of our origins literally in the footsteps of our distant ancestors.

Earlier Prehistory of Africa

Reference materials on Oldowan sites, arranged approximately by age

African Acheaulean

Everything you always wanted to know about Acheulean Handaxes

Institute of Human Origins

The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) conducts, interprets and publicizes scientific research on the human career. IHO’s unique approach brings together scientists from diverse disciplines to develop integrated, bio-behavioral investigations of human evolution. Through research, education, and the sponsorship of scholarly interaction, IHO advances scientific understanding of our origins and its contemporary relevance. Combining interdisciplinary expertise and targeted funding, IHO fosters the pursuit of integrated solutions to the most important questions regarding the course, cause and timing of events in human evolution.