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Tanzania Family Safari

This classic family safari heads deep into the wilds of northern Tanzania, where you'll experience an unmatched blend of ...

Jane Goodall’s inspiring final words as chimp expert is laid to rest

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall was renowned for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees but she dedicated her life to ...
New Scientist

Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...
SAPeople

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.
eLife

Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation

In this valuable study, the authors present traces of bone modification on ~1.8 million-year-old proboscidean remains from Tanzania, which they infer to be the earliest evidence for ...
eLife

Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation

Location of EAK in the junction of the main and secondary branches of Olduvai Gorge, main faults and Naibor Soit quartzites (A), within the area where the Bed I sites cluster at the junction (B), and ...

New study of fossilized bones rewrites history of early human ancestors

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...
Times Union

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 ...