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Turkana Boy

Lake Zone, 🇰🇪 Kenya

Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who… Read more…

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Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago. This specimen is the most complete early hominin skeleton ever found.

It was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu on the bank of the Nariokotome River near Lake Turkana in Kenya.Estimates of the individual's age at death range from 7 to 11 years old.

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Address D348, Kenya
Coordinates 4°7'53.629" N, 35°52'37.685" E
Riverside Hotel
Taxi · 8 min
Turkana Boy
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
Riverside Hotel

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