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.

- Original / License Considered one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world, Olduvai Gorge has shed incredible insights into early human evolution.

The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge Irrepressible Louis Leakey, patriarch of the fossil-hunting family, championed the search for human origins in Africa, attracting criticism and praise ...

Read more: Finds in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge reveal how ancient humans adapted to change Aside from fossilised bones, it has yielded the most detailed record of stone tool cultures in the world.

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 ...

Excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal evidence of the systematic use of animal bones as a raw material for prehistoric tools.

Tools made from elephant and hippo bones show ingenuity of human ancestors A bone tool made from a 1.5-million-year-old elephant bone discovered at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania is seen in ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...

Archaeologists have long believed that humans didn’t start crafting tools from bone until between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Olduvai Gorge cuts through the southeastern plains of the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania. At the time these tools were created, our ancestors lived a precarious hunter-gatherer existence on ...

Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...