Jackson Njau

Jackson Njau's work on crocodile damage to fossil bones is expected to make significant contributions to the study of paleoanthropology. He has been the recipient of several internationally competitive awards and has co-authored a report on his work in Science. Rob Blumenschine states that Jackson is one of the best doctoral students he has ever supervised. Mr. Njau's work has shown that the assumption that early man organized his activities around home bases is flawed; the presence of crocodile-damaged bone “shatters this long-held tenet of paleoanthropology.” He has also found the first evidence anywhere of predation on hominid fossils (in Olduvai Gorge). Upon completing his dissertation, Mr. Njau will become director of the National Natural History Museum in Arusha, Tanzania, and a director of the Olduvai Project.