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

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

The footprints were discovered in 2021 by Richard Loki, a field and lab assistant at the Turkana Basin Institute, while he and others were excavating still-unpublished hominin fossils at the famed fossil site of Koobi Fora, near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

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“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine

She and her parents Meave and Richard Leakey have led teams over the past 50 years that have discovered five species of hominins at Koobi Fora, dating from 4.2 million to 1.4 million years ago.

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