Olduvai Gorge

[ awl-doo-vahy ]

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noun

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

Olduvai Gorge

/ ˈɒldʊˌvaɪ /

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 .

The discoveries at Olduvai Gorge kicked off a fossil gold rush in Africa.

Based on that brain size and details of its hand, the Leakeys argued that this species had made the tools found at Olduvai Gorge.

While Broom was scouring South Africa in the 1930s, the Leakeys began exploring Olduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania.

Still, the discoveries at Olduvai Gorge kicked off a paleo-anthropological gold rush in Africa.

And, as new research conducted at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge reveals, this adaptability was already apparent millions of years ago.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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