Lomekwi
Sign in to saveLomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress with four years of in-depth excavations.
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Vinony's link graph records 82 inbound references to Lomekwi, and connects out to gallery grave, megalith and Kenyanthropus.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 2015 in science, Archaeological sites in Kenya and Archaeological sites of Eastern Africa.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- LOM3
- Ancient site.image
- Lake turkana satellite.jpg
- Ancient site.image_size
- 201px
- Ancient site.alt
- o
- Ancient site.caption
- Lomekwi is near the west bank of Lake Turkana, which is pictured in green on this satellite image.
- Ancient site.map_type
- Kenya
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200px
- Ancient site.map_dot_label
- Approximate location of dig site
- Ancient site.location
- Turkana County, Kenya
- Ancient site.region
- Rift Valley Province
- Ancient site.type
- Ancient campsite
- Ancient site.epochs
- 3.3 million years ago
- Ancient site.cultures
- Australopithecus or Kenyanthropus
- Ancient site.excavations
- –present
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Sonia Harmand, Stony Brook University, US
- Ancient site.public_access
- Limited
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Kenya
- Located in
- Turkana County
- Image
- Lake turkana satellite.jpg
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Artifacts
- Hominin evolution
- References
- External links
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Lake Turkana in Kenya. It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress with four years of in-depth excavations.
Artifacts excavated from Lomekwi date back to 3.3 million years ago, extending the history of human ancestral use and tool making about 500,000 years further than previously known. The most conspicuous among these cultural relics is a large stone tool with obvious traces of processing by human forebears. It looks like a cutting board, but its exact purpose is not clear.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lomekwi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations