KOOBI FORA REMAINS

hominid fossils found by Richard Leakey of the National Museum of Kenya and a large group of paleontologists from the University of California since 1969 along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The Koobi Fora area represents one of the richest locations of hominid fossils ever found. The findswhich include a complete skeleton, several complete skulls, a few dozen lower jaws, leg and arm bone fragments, and some teethprovide the evidence, along with other African finds, for a species called Australopithecus boisei, which is estimated to have lived from nearly 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 years ago. It is a variant of Australopithecus robustus, remains of which were first recovered in South Africa. Additionally, Leakey and his team recovered another fossil hominid, called 1470 and classified as Homo habilis, and it is this fossil that is in association with the stone artifacts found at the sites. This creature lived about 2,000,000 years ago at Koobi Fora and is believed to be the direct ancestor of modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens.