CHAPTER 11 ———— WHO WAS TURKANA BOY? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we Will resemble you in that. —THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Act III, scene i Turkana Boy lived about nine years and then died—about 1.6 million years ago. Discovered in 1984 at Nariokotome, on the west side of Lake Turkana in East Africa, the remains of Turkana Boy are considered a rare find.