I do eventually plan to continue writing on my blog, but things have just been too hectic for the past I don't know 6 months? And show no indications of slowing down anytime soon...
Also I've been working on a blog for my brother his fiance Sarah about their upcoming wedding. Check it out!
Tom Beverly & Sarah Cullinan
November 12, 2011
Rocky Road
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
A typical day at Olduvai

Breakfast at 6:30
Head out to site by 7:00.
Then I was dropped off and hiked into wherever my site happened to be that day. Work mostly consisted of this: Digging a trench (with lots of help), describing, measuring, and photographing a trench, collecting samples, and finally hauling them back up to camp.

So we head back to camp to have lunch and take a siesta if you can until 4 when head back out until the sun begins to set at 6. Then it's back to camp for a "shower," dinner, and a well earned beer. I usually headed back to my tent at 9 to read and was asleep by 10 if not sooner.
Next up: Accommodations!
Labels:
Olduvai Gorge,
tanzania
Thursday, February 24, 2011
A little preview...
I promise that soon I will start up the blog again, but for now here's a little video preview that I made over Christmas break.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Olduvai Gorge

Practically my whole life I wanted to be an archaeologist. One of my favorite books when I was younger just had pictures of King Tut. For my master's thesis, I wanted to do something that combined geology and archaeology, but seeing as I find sitting hunched over for hours in the hot sun digging quite tedious, I decided to find a geology project that would be important for understanding an archaeological site instead. There begins my interest in Olduvai Gorge.
The gorge is named after this plant called Oldupai that grows everywhere
in the gorge, but somehow was anglicized to Olduvai.

Here I am holding an enormous hand axe made out of quartzite. I wish I could say i found it, but sadly I only got to hold it. I did help out on one of the archaeological digs for one day, but I didn't find anything interesting.Fortunately for me, the archaeologists need geologists to tell them what the environment was like millions of years ago, and that's where my project comes in. I'm looking at soils that formed along a lake 1.8 million years ago and have been buried. These buried soils are now are exposed in this gorge cut into the Serengeti Plain and can tell you a lot about the environment.
Here I am describing them. More on that later!
Labels:
Olduvai Gorge,
tanzania,
travel
Now where exactly is Olduvai Gorge?
View Tanzania in a larger map
I've been working on this map that should help explain where things are. It shows things like the Kilimanjaro airport, places I stayed, and most importantly where Olduvai Gorge is! I plan on updating it to show where things are as I get to them.
Labels:
Olduvai Gorge,
tanzania
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