Olduvai Gorge

PROJECT

Twitter Instagram

The Team

TOPPP is composed of the following researchers

Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo

TOPPP co-PI, co-director of IDEA, professor of Prehistory, Alcalá University (Spain), and Department of Anthropology (Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.)

Enrique Baquedano

TOPPP co-PI, co-director of IDEA, Director of the Regional Paleontological and Archaeological Museum of Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Audax Mabulla

TOPPP co-PI, Department of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Agness Gidna

TOPPP co-PI, director of excavations at FLK North, Cultural Heritage Unit, Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Charles Egeland

TOPPP co-PI, director of excavations at BK East, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.

Fernando Diez Martín

Associate professor at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Valladolid, Spain. Expert in lithic technology.

David Uribelarrea

Associate professor, Department of Geodynamic, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Geologist.

Joaquín Panera

Associate professor, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Expert in lithic technology.

Susana Jara-Rubio

Associate professor, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Expert in lithic technology.

Alfredo Pérez González

Senior geologist, IDEA.

Manuel Santonja

Senior archaeologist, IDEA. Expert in lithic technology.

Elia Organista

Director excavations at BK, Archaeologist and taphonomist., IDEA, and Osteoarkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet och antikens kultur Stockholm Universitet, Sweden.

José Manuel Maíllo

Associate professor, Department of Prehistory, UNED University, Madrid, Spain. Expert in lithic technology.

Eduardo Méndez Quintas

Associate professor, Department of Prehistory, Vigo University, Pontevedra, Spain. Archaeologists. Expert in lithic technology.

Abel Moclán

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Marina Vegara

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Gabriel Cifuentes

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Marcos Pizarro

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Blanca Jiménez

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Natalia Abellán

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Santiago Domínguez Solera

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Juan Francisco Palomeque

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Antonio Rodríguez

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Javier Trueba

Archaeologist and taphonomist, IDEA, Spain.

Know more

If you want to know more about our project we invite you to get in touch.

Contact us
We use cookies to personalise content and to provide social media features. View more
Cookies settings
Accept
Decline
Privacy & Cookie policy
Privacy & Cookies policy
Cookies list
Cookie name Active

Privacy Policy

  What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or place an order. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or mailing address.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways: To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs) To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you) To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs) To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to?keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders by contacting customer service.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Updating your personal information

We offer a ‘My details’ page (also known as Dashboard), where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the ‘My details’ link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Save settings
Cookies settings
Scroll to Top