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The Olduvai Gorge Museum, located 5 km beyond the monument, is situated on the rim of the gorge at the junction of the main gorge and the side gorge. As one of the largest onsite museums in Africa, the museum provides educational exhibits related to the gorge and its long history.
Map of the Ruhuhu Basin with ... "Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I", Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, 29: 289–446;
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.
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 Gorge, where some of the earliest hominins are believed to have evolved. Africa has the longest record of human habitation in the world. The first hominins emerged 6–7 million years ago, and among the earliest anatomically modern human skulls found so far were discovered at Omo Kibish, [1] Jebel Irhoud, and Florisbad. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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Nepean Gorge, New South Wales; North and South Gorges of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland; Palm Valley, Northern Territory; Porcupine Gorge, Queensland; Purnululu National Park, Western Australia—Cathedral and Piccaninny Gorges, [16] and Echidna Chasm [17] Ravine des Casoars, South Australia; Sturt Gorge, South Australia
These earliest known specimens were found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The name Oldowan was given to the tools after the site in which they were excavated. These types of tools were used an estimated time range of 2.5 to 1.2 million years ago. [1]