Koobi Fora

[ koo-bee fawr-uh ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Koobi Fora¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

A cut-marked bone from Koobi Fora, KenyaShara Bailey, a paleoanthropologist at New York University, says she wasn’t particularly surprised by the paper’s findings, because she and others have long suspected the “meat made us human” hypothesis was overly simplistic.

From Science Magazine

Leakey then initiated fossil-hunting expeditions of his own, notably at a site called Koobi Fora, on Lake Turkana in Kenya.

From Science Magazine

In addition, a disputed radiometric date for some layers of volcanic ash, or tuffs, had suggested that the fossils at Koobi Fora were particularly old.

From Nature

The good news was that ash layers were present both at Koobi Fora and at the Omo River site.

From Nature

Koobi Fora was no longer an outlier.

From Nature