Turkana Basin Sites and Artifacts

ARTIFACTS		SITES
Bone harpoons		Kibish IV — 10 kya
Early pottery		Jarigole — 10 kya - 4 kya
Earliest Homo sapiens		Kibish — 195 kya
Homo heidelbergensis		Eliye Springs — 300 - 150 kya
Rich fossil fauna and archaeological sites		Omo Shungura Fm — 1.8 - 1.05 mya Koobi Fora Fm — 1.8 - 0.7 mya
“Turkana Boy” Homo erectus skeleton		Nachukui Fm — 1.8 - 0.98 mya
Paranthropus aethiopicus “Black Skull” Kenyanthropus platyops		Nachukui Fm — 4.1 - 1.8 mya
Early fossil hominins and archaeological sites		Koobi Fora Fm — 4.2 - 1.8 mya Fejej & Shungura Fm — 4.0 - 1.8 mya
Australopithecus anamensis		Kanapoi — 4.1 mya
Abundant mammalian fauna including early hominids		Lothagam — 8 - 3.5 mya
Abundant apes and earliest monkeys		Kalodirr — 17 mya Buluk — 17 - 18 mya
Unexplored fossil bone beds		Loperot — 27 - 17 mya Lothodok — 27 mya
Earliest fossil ape		Lokone Hill — 30 mya
Dinosaur		Labur Range — 165 - 95 mya