Back Turkana-seun Afrikaans صبي توركانا Arabic Türkanalı oğlan Azerbaijani ترکانا اینسانی AZB Турканскі хлопчык Byelorussian তারকানা বালক Bengali/Bangla Nen de Turkana Catalan Turkanský chlapec Czech Nariokotome-Junge German Niño de Nariokotome Spanish
 Cast at the American Museum of Natural History | |
| Catalog no. | KNM-WT 15000 |
|---|---|
| Common name | Turkana Boy, Nariokotome Boy |
| Species | Homo erectus |
| Age | 1.5 - 1.6 mya |
| Place discovered | Lake Turkana, Kenya |
| Date discovered | 1984 |
| Discovered by | Kamoya Kimeu/Richard Leakey |
Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus youth who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago. This specimen is the most complete early hominin skeleton ever found.[1] It was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu on the bank of the Nariokotome River near Lake Turkana in Kenya.[2][3]
Estimates of the individual's age at death range from 7 to 11 years old.[4]
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- ^ Brown F, Harris J, Leakey R, Walker A (1985). "Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 316 (6031): 788–792. Bibcode:1985Natur.316..788B. doi:10.1038/316788a0. PMID 3929141. S2CID 4311887.
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- ^ Graves RR, Lupo AC, McCarthy RC, Wescott DJ, Cunningham DL (2010). "Just how strapping was KNM-WT 15000?". J Hum Evol. 59 (5): 542–554. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.06.007. PMID 20846707.