<Tr> <Th> Date discovered </Th> <Td> 1984 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Discovered by </Th> <Td> Kamoya Kimeu / Richard Leakey </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Image is of a cast on display at the American Museum of Natural History </Td> </Tr> <P> Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the common name of Homo erectus fossil KNM - WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth who lived during the early Pleistocene . This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found . It is believed to be between 1.5 and 1.6 million years old . </P>

The nariokotome boy fossil indicates that h. ergaster