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 ...

It is 30 miles from Laetoli, another fossil-rich area. Olduvai Gorge was formed about 30,000 years ago, the result of aggressive geological activity and streams.

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 ...

Olduvai Gorge is a key tourist site where visitors can learn about human evolution and prehistory. The site and new museum attract local and international tourists to visit and experience what it ...

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. Noel ...

The jaw belongs to the original, or type, specimen of Homo habilis, or "Handy Man," so-called by its discoverers Louis and Mary Leakey in 1964 because it was found in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in ...

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 ...

OH 5 is easily the most famous of the early human fossils found at Olduvai Gorge. It is a nearly complete cranium of an adult male Paranthropus boisei. Originally named Zinjanthropus boisei, its ...

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.

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, ... “Olduvai Gorge is in East Africa,” Florin explained in a 2021 episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, ...