Koobi Fora

American  

[koo-bee fawr-uh] / ˈku bi ˈfɔr ə /

noun

1. an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominin fossils and some of the oldest hominin areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from 1.1–4.2 million years ago.

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Etymology

Origin of Koobi Fora

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

This research was carried out with permission from the National Museums of Kenya and Kenya's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, and in partnership with the Koobi Fora Field School.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

At Koobi Fora, Hatala’s team found the isolated footprints were made by two or three different individuals who each left footprints much like those of modern humans.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

That evidence might take the form of a pit, reddened rock or soil overlaid by charcoal and ash, or a concentration of discarded tools and trash as Hlubik has seen in Koobi Fora.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2017

Variation in the Koobi Fora fossils was not so easily shoe-horned into a single species as those from Olduvai.

From Nature • Apr. 2, 2014

White was working on his Ph.D. in physical anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1974 when he landed a plum summer job doing fieldwork with Richard Leakey's team at Koobi Fora, Kenya.

From Time Magazine Archive