Olduvai Gorge, an unassuming archaeological site in Tanzania, East Africa, has become known as one of the richest paleoanthropological places in the world. Alongside hominin fossils millions of ...

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove that Africa – specifically East Africa, where he had been born and grown ...

An impressively documented leading article in the British Medical Journal of June 13, 1964, discusses recent fossil discoveries by Dr. L. S. B. Leakey in Tanganyika. The bones constituting the find ...

Then, in 1959, came the now-famous discovery, in Olduvai, of a 1.75-millionyear-old skull that Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei, and which he asserted was the “connecting link between the South ...

An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of early hominins. Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council ...

However, at Olduvai Gorge – the site where Homo habilis's discovery reshaped the human family tree – paleontologists have found many bone tools dated to 1.5 million years ago.

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.

MORE remains of hominids have been recovered at Olduvai Gorge since field work was resumed in October 1968. The most important of these is a crushed, but nearly complete, cranium (Old.H.24) which ...

Prior to the latest Olduvai Gorge finds, the earliest evidence of systematic production of bone tools crafted with knapping techniques came from European sites dating between 400,000 and 250,000 ...

Hominins at Olduvai Gorge may have been hunting prey 2 million years ago. Early hominins are known to have eaten meat, but until recently, the origins of the meat were less clear.

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove that Africa – specifically East Africa, where he had been born and grown ...