English Explanatory Dictionary

Turkana Boy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The nearly complete fossilised skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth (estimated 7–11 years old at death) who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago.

Word forms

Turkana Boy

Etymology

Named after Lake Turkana, Kenya, near which the fossil was discovered in 1984 by Kenyan palaeontologist Kamoya Kimeu, on the bank of the Nariokotome River.

Synonyms

Nariokotome Boy KNM-WT 15000
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