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The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have ...
The Olduvai Gorge Museum (Swahili: Makumbusho ya Bonde la Oltupai) is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania on the edge of the Olduvai Gorge.The museum was founded by Mary Leakey and is now under the jurisdiction of the Tanzanian government's Department of Cultural Antiquities and is managed by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority.
Major fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania Olduvai Formation Peninj Gorge Group ... Tobias, P. V (1991), Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, ...
Olduvai is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northeastern Tanzania and is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) long. It lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro highlands and is the driest part of the region. [28] The gorge is named after 'Oldupaai', the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant, Sansevieria ehrenbergii. [citation needed]
Olduvai Hominid number 9 (OH 9), known as the Chellean Man, is a fossilized skull cap of an early hominin, found in LLK II, Olduvai Gorge by Louis S. B. Leakey in 1960. [1] It is believed to be ca. 1.4 million years old. Its cranial capacity is estimated at than 1067 cm 3, the largest value among all known African Homo erectus specimens. [2]
Laetoli is a pre-historic site located in Enduleni ward of Ngorongoro District in Arusha Region, Tanzania. The site is dated to the Plio-Pleistocene and famous for its Hominina footprints, preserved in volcanic ash. The site of the Laetoli footprints (Site G) is located 45 km south of Olduvai gorge.
The site was initially listed for its natural significance. In 2010, it was extended to include the cultural aspects, namely the sites of Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli where the remains of early hominins and fossilized footprints, indicating the development of human bipedalism have been discovered.
1913 discovery of Olduvai skeleton Hans Gottfried Reck (24 January 1886 – 4 August 1937) was a German volcanologist and paleontologist . In 1913 he was the first to discover an ancient skeleton of a human in the Olduvai Gorge , in what is now Tanzania .
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