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

He hired her as a secretary and soon had her helping him and his wife, Mary, dig for fossils at Olduvai Gorge, a famous site in the Serengeti Plains in what is now northern Tanzania.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Science Magazine

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

From Washington Post

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