For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...

The Oldowan age (2.7 million to 1.5 million years ago) represents the dawn of human tool use. Characterized by the very ...

They were found in the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa Credit: CSIC. They were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It's a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, and contains evidence ...

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 ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, ... Homo habilis, the first members of our genus, dates back to approximately 2.5 million years ago (mya), also from East Africa. ...

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, ...

Olduvai Gorge is in East Africa, ... The Olduvai Gorge bone tools were first spotted in 2018 during excavations carried out between 2015 and 2022.

Olduvai Gorge This cleft in a remote African plain cuts through deposits uniquely rich in the remains of weird animals and the tools of early men who lived from 400,000 to 15,000 years ago By L. S ...

Olduvai is part of the great East African Rift Valley torn open by massive earthquakes. Many skulls and bones of our early ancestors have been found along this valley. Can we be human without objects?

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...