Turkana Boy - Wikipedia
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. [1]
All About Turkana Boy | Turkana Basin Institute
A boy with a head of hair, rather than fur-covered, whose proportions—arms, shoulders, chest and legs, resembled those of modern humans. He was named “Turkana Boy”. Overlapping with the australopithecines and an intermediate hominid form Homo habilis, Turkana Boy was exciting for multiple reasons.
KNM-WT 15000 - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
Discovered by: Kamoya Kimeu. Age: About 1.6 million years ago. Species: Homo erectus. No Scan. The strapping youth. The ‘Turkana Boy’ skeleton has allowed scientists to find out a lot of information about body size, body shape, and growth rates of Homo erectus.
Human ancestor Homo erectus had the stocky chest of a …
Jul 6, 2020 — Turkana Boy is a near-complete skeleton of an adolescent Homo erectus. It is approximately 1.5 million years old and was discovered in Kenya. A 3D virtual ribcage of the skeleton has been reconstructed, allowing researchers to predict its shape and breathing pattern, had the boy grown into an adult.
Turkana Boy sparks row over Homo erectus height - Science News
Apr 14, 2014 — Clashing analyses conclude that 1.5-million-year-old Turkana Boy, whose nearly complete skeleton was found in 1984, would have grown to nearly 6 feet tall or reached only about 5 feet, 4...
Turkana people - Wikipedia
The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu people to the south, Uganda to the west, to the South Sudan ( Didinga and Toposa) and Ethiopia to the north.
Turkana Boy, Kenya National Museum, Richard Leakey, Homo …
Turkana Boy also known as Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to the fossilized remains of a Homo erectus child found in 1984 at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya. The remains are believed to be of a hominin who died at the age of eight to twelve years old, and is estimated to have lived 1.5 million years ago.
Turkana boy - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turkana boy, or Nariokotome boy, is the fossil KNM-WT 15000. [1] It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid who died in the early Pleistocene 1.5 million years ago (mya), near present-day Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya. This specimen is …
For 1.5 million years old, Turkana Boy in pretty good shape - NBC News
Mar 20, 2013 — The ancient hominid was likely a child or an adolescent Homo erectus who lived and died about 1.5 million years ago. But about a decade ago, researchers proposed that Turkana Boy was suffering...
New Beginnings For Turkana Boys - OneChild
Turkana boys who attend Hope Centers in Kenya learn there is more to life than the often-dangerous job of herding livestock. Read how Child Champions help transform these boys’ futures through education.