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  2. Olduvai Gorge - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Wilhelm Kattwinkel - Wikipedia

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    From 1910-1911 Kattwinkel, with his wife, undertook a privately funded research trip to German East Africa to investigate sleeping sickness [2] In 1911 he discovered on the southeastern edge of today's Serengeti National Park a rich fossil-finding site that he named Olduvai Gorge after the Maasai word Oldupai for the sisal Sansevieria ...

  4. Chellean Man - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    Group Formation Period Notes Mbuga Clays Formation: Pleistocene-Holocene [1] [2]Peninj Gorge: Humbu Formation: Gelasian-Calabrian [3]Sambu Lavas Formation: Zanclean-Calabrian [4] ...

  6. OH 7 - Wikipedia

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    OH 7 (Olduvai Hominid № 7), also nicknamed "Johnny's Child", [1] is the type specimen of Homo habilis. The fossils were discovered on November 4, 1960 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by Jonathan and Mary Leakey. The remains are dated to approximately 1.75 million years, and consist of fragmented parts of a lower mandible (which still holds ...

  7. African archaeology - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Olduvai Hominid 8 - Wikipedia

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    Olduvai Hominid number 8 (OH 8) is a fossilized foot of an early hominin found in Olduvai Gorge by Louis Leakey in the early 1960s. [ 1 ] Kidd et al. (1996) argued that the fossil assemblage exhibits both ape and human characteristics. [ 2 ]

  9. Paranthropus boisei - Wikipedia

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    Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. [1] The holotype specimen, OH 5, was discovered by palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and described by her husband Louis a month later.