The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology ... Louis (also known as L.S.B.) Leakey wrote about their discovery for National Geographic magazine in 1960: He had a terrible headache ...

Olduvai Gorge, an unassuming archaeological site in ... habilis is one of the oldest members of our own genus. The discovery of Homo habilis upended the human evolution narrative, suggesting ...

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image Credit ... proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. One key discovery was that the presence of Homo erectus fossils in previously ...

In 1931, Leakey made his first trip to the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania -- the site of some of his most important finds. Though he found a few things of interest, he didn't return for a ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't, of course, look anything like a modern axe - there's no handle and there's no metal blade. It's in fact a piece of grey-green volcanic rock, a very beautiful ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy ... been dated to 1.8 million years ago at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. A 2.5-million-year-old fossil ...