Koobi Fora

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Koobi Fora is an archeological site on the east side of Lake Turkana in Eastern Africa. Richard Leakey was the first to excavate this site, and he found over four hundred fossils there. Among those found were Australopithecene and early Homo remains. This site has the most varied human remains anywhere in the world. The remains found include a complete skeleton, skulls, lower jaw bones, leg and arm fragments, and many teeth. Many stone tools that were used to cut the meat off of bones were also found at this site. The most notorious of the finds was the fossil of the Homo habilis which is thought to be a direct ancestor of man, living over two million years ago.