Turkwel River

The Turkwel begins on the lush green slopes of Mount Elgon and the Cherangani Hills, then traverses the Southern Turkana Plains, crosses the Loturerei Desert near Lodwar and empties into the world's largest desert lake, Lake Turkana.

[3] The controversial Turkwel Dam was built by the Kenyan government from 1986 to 1991 with the help of France.

They were discovered by a multinational team in 1990 and brought to the National Museums of Kenya.

These fossils include a metacarpal, capitate, hamate, lunate, pedal phalanx, mandibular fragment, and dental remains.

They lacked the suspension and climbing capabilities in the hand and wrist of contemporaries, but had heavily muscled forearms that were adept at certain apelike types of precision gripping based on the suggested rotary capacity.

Dry riverbed of the Turkwel river, just outside Lodwar town in Turkana County , Kenya
Seen entering Lake Turkana
Hominin hand remains from South Turkwel.