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

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 • Oct. 1, 2025

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

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2024

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 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