Turkana Boy

Turkana Boy is a nearly complete skeleton of a 9-year-old hominid boy who died 1.5 million years ago. The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by a team led by Richard Leakey near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Turkana Boy is classified as either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster.

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