Olduvai Gorge

American  

[awl-doo-vahy] / ˈɔl dʊˌvaɪ /

noun

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

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Olduvai Gorge British  

/ ˈɒldʊˌvaɪ /

noun

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

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Olduvai Gorge Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

In one striking case, a ground squirrel bone from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, dated to about 1.8 million years ago, showed evidence of infection by the parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

The Olduvai Gorge, an important anthropological region of early human evolution, is found in which African country?

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2024

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

From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2023

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2021

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

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall