Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million year ...

The Olduvai Gorge has also yielded some of the oldest fossils, including the Laetoli Canine from Australopithecus Afarensis, dating back to 3.5 million years ago.

One of the most famous Mexican artifacts, the Aztec Calendar Stone, is 12 feet in diameter and weighs almost 54,210 pounds. Because of its size, it was buried before being rediscovered in present ...

9. Olduvai Gorge ©"Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge" by Noel Feans is licensed under BY 2.0. - Original / License ...

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 ...

We dated them using geochronological techniques. Reopening of Trench 69 at Olduvai Gorge in 2020. After each field season, archaeological trenches are backfilled. Photo: J.K. Njau, Author provided (no ...

Found at the T69 Complex in Olduvai Gorge, the artifacts suggest that tool-making skills were developed much earlier than expected. HIV link to dementia risk revealed ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ability to systematically make tools about a million years earlier than scientists thought. The ...