Olduvai Gorge
[ awl-doo-vahy ]
/ ˈɔl dʊˌvaɪ /
noun
a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
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How to use Olduvai Gorge in a sentence
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.
The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.
PANKISI GORGE, Georgia—The mother of martyrs, a woman in her fifties, is delicately beautiful and visibly in pain.
BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.
The Pankisi Gorge is a beautiful place, but it does not offer big opportunities to the local boys.
And he is said to be luring more young Muslims from his home region in the Pankisi Gorge to join his insurgency forces.
Poor wretches—they were afraid to refuse, yet their gorge rose at the deed, and they fired at the ceiling!
Far up the gorge dense clouds of black smoke swooped down from the benchland.
Darkness fell, but still the fight continued, and at last Dupont's guns were heard at the other side of the gorge.
Therefore its channel is usually not a hundredth part as wide as the gorge or valley in which it lies.
On his right an open glade revealed to him the dark gorge through which the Cluden thundered.
British Dictionary definitions for Olduvai Gorge
noun
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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Cultural definitions for Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge
[ (ohl-duh-veye, awl-duh-veye) ]
A deep ravine in Tanzania famous for the fossils of ancestors of humans found there by Louis and Mary Leakey.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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