World Atlas Core Records · Technology

Lomekwi 3

c. 3.3 million years ago · Kenya

Large stone cores, flakes and anvils preserve a technological tradition older than the earliest securely identified Homo fossils.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Lomekwi 3, c. 3.3 million years ago. — AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

How the setting appeared

A lakeside landscape offered stone, water, plants and animal resources to mobile groups.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Small groups moved through the region; no permanent settlement is known.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Toolmakers struck and battered large stone pieces, but the maker species is unknown.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

No evidence supports a reconstruction of belief.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Deep origins
Region: Africa · Kenya
Languages and scripts: Not named in this record
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: c. 3.3 million years ago: Large cores, flakes and anvils were made or used at Lomekwi 3; the makers are unknown; 2011 CE: Archaeological fieldwork identified the stone-tool assemblage; 2015 CE: Researchers published the assemblage and proposed the term Lomekwian for its technology
Evidence confidence: High for the dated artifacts; maker identity and behavioral context are uncertain.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-CORE-LOMEKWI-3

Lomekwi 3: record evidence guide

https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/fr/lomekwi

archeologie.culture.gouv.fr

CIT-CORE069-LOMEKWI-NATURE

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464

Nature

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