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Where was Turkana Boy discovered?

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Side-view illustration of a Homo erectus individual, depicted with a robust, upright body covered in hair, walking with one arm bent. A scale bar beside the figure shows measurements in inches and centimeters. — Homo erectus Artist's rendering of *Homo erectus*, which lived from approximately 1,700,000 to 200,000 years ago.

The fossil known as "Turkana Boy" (KNM-WT 15000) was discovered at Nariokotome, a site located on the northwestern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.123