The boy from Nariokotome

Inventory code

Dating

Location

The year of finding

Brain volume

Height
KNM-WT 15000

1.53 million years ago

Nariokotome, Turkana, Kenya

1984

around 880 cc (adults around 910 cc)

around 1.6 m
One of the significant, more fully preserved skeletal remains, adapted to its climate and with an increased brain size, is the skeleton of an eight-year-old boy from Nariokotome, found along the Lake Turkana in Kenya. Anatomical details also indicate significant changes in the overall structure of Homo members compared to earlier australopithecines.
It is also shown on the pedestal – reconstruction