Olduvai Gorge

[awl-doo-vahy]

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a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.

Olduvai Gorge

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a gorge in N Tanzania, north of the Ngorongoro Crater: fossil evidence of early man and other closely related species, together with artefacts

Olduvai Gorge

A deep ravine in Tanzania famous for the fossils of ancestors of humans found there by Louis and Mary Leakey.

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Much more is known about Oldowan stone tools, first discovered in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in the 1930s.

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Their discoveries of skulls and other remains in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge helped prove that human life first emerged in Africa.

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Leakey was taking a break from fossil-hunting in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, and Simpson had sailed to Europe weeks earlier to share with European archaeologists Calico’s best surface artifacts.

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And the fault certainly lies not with feral cats but feral humans, strayed far indeed from Olduvai Gorge.

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In 1957, Olduvai Gorge, which is now famous, was known to very few white people.

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