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...

(nicknamed "Turkana Boy"). They interpreted the fossil, consisting of a nearly complete skeleton, as representing H. erectus. Turkana Boy was the first...

suggests an ability for high speed throwing. It was once thought that Turkana boy had 6 lumbar vertebra instead of the 5 seen in modern humans and 11 instead...

Lake Turkana (/tɜːrˈkɑːnə, -ˈkæn-/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It...

Turkana may refer to: Turkana people of Kenya and Ethiopia Turkana language of Kenya and Ethiopia Lake Turkana in Kenya Lake Turkana National Parks Turkana...

During excavations at Lake Turkana in 1984, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, assisted by Kamoya Kimeu, discovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old...

chair of the Turkana Basin Institute until his death. Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi. As a small boy, Leakey lived...

(previously known as Lake Rudolf). In 1984, the Turkana Boy, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy was discovered. In 1999, a 3,500,000-year-old...

Pluvial Origins of society Palaeoarchaeology Peopling of the Americas Turkana Boy Christian, David (2014). Big History: Between Nothing and Everything...

KNM ER 3733 was compared to male fossils KNM ER 3883 and KNM WT 15000 (Turkana Boy), who were also found at the Koobi Fora site, and because of this, is...