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Visit Olduvai Gorge this Christmas – here’s why

This Christmas, trade shopping malls for stone tools. Olduvai Gorge in Arusha offers history, wonder and peace all in one.
Smithsonian Magazine

The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge

Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, discovered by German scientist Hans Reck in 1913, was, as Reck claimed, about half a ...
EurekAlert!

Dawn of humanity illuminated in special journal edition – 50 years after the Leakeys

The first systematic, multidisciplinary results to come out of research conducted on the edge of the Serengeti at the rich palaeoanthropological site in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania since that ...
The Register Citizen

AI reveals which predators chewed ancient humans’ bones – challenging ideas on which ‘Homo’ species was the first tool-using hunter

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...
Newsday

Ancient humans made tools from animal bones 1.5 million years ago

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in ...
AOL

Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists have ...
AllAfrica.com

Africa: AI Reveals Which Predators Chewed Ancient Humans' Bones - Challenging Ideas On Which Homo Species Was the First Tool-Using Hunter

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...