[1] The site is located 50 Kilometres off the Lodwar – Kalokol highway, an it is easily visible on 30 metres (98 ft) from the road.

A number of other pillar sites surround Lake Turkana as well and date to the same time period; Lothagam North and Manemanya, for example, are communal cemeteries.

[8] Lynch believed the basalt pillars tie the constellations or stars to the 12-month 354-day lunar calendar of Cushitic speakers of southern Ethiopia.

The pillars were said to align with seven star systems: Triangulum, Pleiades, Bellatrix, Aldebaran, Central Orion, Saiph, and Sirius.

Other archaeologists have reanalyzed the archaeoastronomical evidence,[9] and an older radiocarbon date from the Kalokol Pillar Site now calls into question these interpretations.