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 ...

The fossils they had collected in Olduvai a few years earlier belonged, they said, to a previously unknown species of hominin.

Olduvai Gorge is a site in Tanzania that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. Paleoanthropologists have found hundreds of fossilized bones and stone tools in the area ...

The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge Irrepressible Louis Leakey, patriarch of the fossil-hunting family, championed the search for human origins in Africa, attracting criticism and praise ...

The discovery of a jawbone, along with a reconstruction of another fossil, shed light on the mysterious million-year period when the genus Homo first evolved.

The Olduvai Gorge Museum exhibits numerous fossils and stone tools of hominid ancestors including skeletons of many extinct animals excavated at the gorge.

Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania’s eastern Serengeti Plains was home to a lake millions of years ago. Nearby volcanic eruptions helped preserve fossils at the site and enable dating of the finds.

Bamford's paper entitled Fossil sedges, microplants, and roots from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and her collaborative paper with Rosa Albert entitled Vegetation during UMBI and deposition of Tuff IF ...

Fossils of hominins — the group that includes modern humans and our close ancestors — had been dated to 1.8 million years ago at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

Geologic Age Pliocene Notes Brown plastic cast cranium of Olduvai Hominid 5 (OH 5), also known as "Nutcracker Man," from the species Paranthropus boisei. OH 5 is easily the most famous of the early ...

The gorge in northern Tanzania has yielded many of the oldest fossils of humankind, shedding new light on our ancient ancestors. The Leakeys started working at the site in the 1930s, unearthing a ...

Why Olduvai? It’s clear, then, that Olduvai Gorge is a priceless resource for the study of humanity’s origins. But what about it makes this place so rich in history?