Olduvai Gorge This cleft in a remote African plain cuts through deposits uniquely rich in the remains of weird animals and the tools of early men who lived from 400,000 to 15,000 years ago By L. S ...

Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, discovered by German scientist Hans Reck in 1913, was, as Reck claimed, about half a ...

found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still gives me the most enormous thrill is that, now and then ...

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania ... in human evolution ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't ... in the way a sculptor today can see the statue inside the block of marble. This particular piece of supreme hi-tech stone is between 1.2 and 1.4 million ...

(David Attenborough) In the British Museum, we've recently made a new chopping tool using the same techniques as would have been used in Olduvai Gorge. If I now hold that new one in my hand ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago.

These implements, known to experts as Oldowan—named after the Olduvai Gorge, an archaeologically rich site nearby in Tanzania—were shaped by our human ancestors into an impressive variety of ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date ... a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of ...

The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.

This is an artist's rendition of an early human habitat in East Africa 1.8 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Flanking the eastern edge of the Serengeti, the site houses the Ngorongoro Crater – the world's sixth-largest intact volcanic caldera – and Olduvai Gorge. This UNESCO World Heritage site ...