Turkana Basin Overview

The deposits surrounding the huge Lake Turkana span a remarkably long time, from cretaceous-era exposures rich in dinosaur fossils to modern holocene epoch sites yeilding information about the last 10,000 years of human development in East Africa.

Select a map overlay to learn more about some of the more important sites and discoveries found in this region:

 

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