The death of anthropologist Isaiah Nengo was announced in a tweet from the Turkana Basin Institute, where he was associate director. This profile of Nengo, a National Geographic Explorer, appears in the February issue
captivated Nengo. After college he volunteered there, and Leakey helped him get into a Ph.D. program at Harvard University.
Nengo began fieldwork in the mid-1980s in western Kenya, where the first fossil he excavated was the pelvis of a 17-million-year-old ape. “I didn’t know at the time just how lucky I was,” he says, laughing. In 2014 he led an expedition in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that discovered the most complete fossil skull of an ape ever found,
of today’s apes and humans. The team gave the skull’s owner the nickname Alesi, from the Turkana word for “ancestor.”Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Looking for fossils, Isaiah Nengo sifts dirt with Faith Wambua of the National Museums of Kenya. When Nengo was in high school, a lecture at the museums by paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparked his interest.
Looking for fossils, Isaiah Nengo sifts dirt with Faith Wambua of the National Museums of Kenya. When Nengo was in high school, a lecture at the museums by paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparked his interest. Today some of his finds are housed there.Nengo teaches at New York’s Stony Brook University and Kenya’s Turkana University College. He also runs a master’s program in human evolutionary biology that was launched at Turkana University in 2017.
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