Lake Turkana (/tɜːrˈkɑːnə, -ˈkæn-/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It...
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Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Turkana Lake in Kenya. It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology...
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Proto-Eastern Nilotic. Eastern Nilotic Bari languages Teso–Lotuko–Maa: Teso–Turkana (or Ateker; incl. Karimojong) Lotuko–Maa: Lotuko languages Lango language...
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the first expedition to Northern Kenya. He was the first European to see Lake Turkana. Teleki was born in 1845 in Sáromberke, a village in Transylvania,...
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Richard Leakey (section West Turkana)
President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi's government. Leakey co-founded the "Turkana Basin Institute" in an academic partnership with Stony Brook University...
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Koobi Fora (redirect from East Turkana)
a region around Koobi Fora Ridge, located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in the territory of the nomadic Gabbra people. According to the National...
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During excavations at Lake Turkana in 1984, palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey, assisted by Kamoya Kimeu, discovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old...
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is divided up into three subgroups: Eastern Nilotic languages such as Turkana and Maasai Southern Nilotic languages such as Kalenjin and Datooga Western...
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Nataruk in Turkana County, Kenya, is the site of an archaeological investigation which uncovered the remains of 27 people. It dates between 9,500 and...
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Gilgel Gibe III Dam (section Impact on Lake Turkana)
Friends of Lake Turkana, a Kenyan organization representing indigenous groups in northwestern Kenya whose livelihoods are linked to Lake Turkana, had previously...
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rift extending from the Indian Ocean coast to the Sudan northwest of Lake Turkana. The Anza Rift resulted from the break–up of Gondwana. The climate of Kenya...
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that Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest hominin species in the Turkana Basin, but likely co-existed with afarensis towards the end of its existence...
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Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and communication between primates The Turkana language The FOXP2 gene and its effect on language Brain patterns from...
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January 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2014. "Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Lake Turkana". Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 23 November...
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international borders. Turkana is bounded on the northern side by South Sudan and on the West by Uganda. Its Eastern wall is formed by Lake Turkana and on the southern...
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California Bear Lake on the Utah–Idaho border Lake Magadi in Kenya Lake Turkana in Kenya Mono Lake, near Owens Valley in California Redberry Lake, Saskatchewan...
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practice include Suri, Mursi , Topsa , Nyangatom, Didinga, Murle, Me'en, Turkana, Konso, Dime, Karamojong, Dodoth, Kalenjin people Haruspication has also...
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Oldowan (section East Turkana)
from Nyayanga. The numerous Koobi Fora sites on the east side of Lake Turkana are now part of Sibiloi National Park. Sites were initially excavated by...
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Uganda, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania, it includes languages such as Turkana and Maasai. Bari-Kuku-Kakwa-Pojulu-Mundari-Nyangwara-Nyepo and others Teso–Lotuko–Maa...
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England, dates from around this year. Evidence of a massacre near Lake Turkana, Kenya indicates upper paleolithic warfare. The Upper Paleolithic in the...
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with the languages of the Datooga people of Tanzania, the Maasai, Luo, Turkana, Nuer, Dinka among others are classified as Nilotic languages. Linguistic...
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spears dating back more than 300,000 years. At the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, numerous human skeletons dating to 10,000 years ago may present...
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million, Nandi 940,000) Maasai 1.2 million (1.9 million including Tanzania) Turkana 1.0 million Cushitic Oromo (over 48 million incl. Ethiopia) Borana, 276...
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3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old Pliocene hominin fossil discovered in Lake Turkana, Kenya, in 1999) may have been the earliest tool-users known. The oldest...
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to Africa. Based on fossils from the Koobi Fora Formation, east of Lake Turkana in Kenya, Spoor et al. (2007) argued that H. habilis may have survived...
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Paleolithic Period. The earliest stone tools are from the site of Lomekwi, Turkana, dating from 3.3 million years ago. Stone tools diversified through the...
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Samburu. The El Molo are believed to have originally migrated down into the Turkana Basin around 1000 BC from Ethiopia in the more northerly Horn region. Owing...
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group CEO Mugo Kibati, group CEO of Sanlam Kenya Plc and chairman of Lake Turkana Wind Power Joseph Mucheru, former Google Sub-Saharan Africa Lead and current...
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collector of antiquities who asks him to come to a British excavation in the Turkana region of Kenya. This dig is excavating a Christian Byzantine church from...
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Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0...
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