Fig. 8. The “Turkana Boy” (KNM-WT 15000) from Nariokotome, West Turkana, 
Kenya. This remarkably preserved adolescent skeleton of a probable Homo ergaster 
is about 1.6 myr old. 
the-genus Homo. Known as Homo ergaster, this new form is best 
represented by the miraculously complete ““Turkana Boy” skeleton 
from northern Kenya (Walker and Leakey, 1993). The remains of a 
5 foot 3 inch youngster who died at the age of nine and would have 
topped 6 feet had he lived to maturity, this skeleton (fig. 8) tells us 
that the people who lived by Lake Turkana 1.6 myr ago were long- 
limbed and slender, built, like the people of the area today, for life 
out in the hot, arid, open savanna, far from the shelter of the forest. 
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