Kenya. KNM-ER 1808 is the paleonanthropological code name for a woman who lived 1.7 million years ago, whose skeleton was discovered by Kenyan anthropologist Kamoya Kimeu in 1974 at the Koobi Fora archaeological site in Kenya. She is a female Homo erectus with bone deformities in her legs, due to hypervitaminosis A, which prevented her from moving during the last months of her life. This means she was cared for and helped for several months. This is the first fossil evidence of the very human emotion of compassion.
