Below are eight facts about Olduvai Gorge and our ancient ancestors who made it their home. Olduvai Gorge demonstrates the longest known continuous record of human evolution.

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?

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 ...

Life after the volcano The oldest evidence we have for early human relatives at Olduvai Gorge is a handful of stone tools, made and used around 2.03 million years ago.

Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania, made famous by Louis and Mary Leakey. New interdisciplinary field work has led to the ...

The handaxe was found in 1931 by Louis Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and is dated to about 1.2 million years ago. It was crafted from a block of hard, green lava called phonolite by ...

Either of two fossil hominids known to have lived at Olduvai Gorge around 1.5 million years ago — a possible direct human ancestor called Homo erectus or a side-branch species dubbed ...

VISITORS to the cradle of humankind, Olduvai Gorge, have surpassed 30,000 annually with authorities saying the number will increase even more in coming years.

The Olduvai Gorge sits in the Great Rift Valley between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti National Park. It is close to another fossil-rich enclave, Laetoli.