In July 2011, a team of archeologists led by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University, United States, were heading to a site near Kenya's Lake Turkana near where Kenyanthropus platyops fossils had previously been found.[1][2] The group made a wrong turn on the way and ended up at a previously unexplored region and decided to do some surveying. They quickly found some stone artifacts on the site, which they named Lomekwi 3.[1] A year later they returned to the site for a full excavation.[2] Harmand presented her findings at the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society on April 14, 2015[1] and published the full announcement and results on the cover of Nature on May 21, 2015.[3]