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Nariokotome III (NK3)
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- Site type:
- Unknown, Cave
- Site function:
- Na
- Lat/Long:
- 4.26, 35.82
- Country:
- Kenya
- Date range max:
- 2,600,000 Bp
- Date range min:
- 800,000 Bp
- Classifications:
- Homo erectus
- Cultures:
- Oldowan
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Homo Erectus Turkana
Source: Homo Erectus Turkana
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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TURKANA BOY-KNM-WT 15000 Discovered by Dr Richard Leakey
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Homo ergaster KNM-WT 15000 Turkana boy Wien 18.07.19 JM
Homo-erectus Turkana-Boy (Ausschnitt) Fundort Nariokotome, Kenia, Rekonstruktion im Neanderthal Museum
Homo Erectus Turkana
Source: Homo Erectus Turkana