The Tanzania countryside is everything you ... The only modern structure is the Olduvai Gorge Monument & Museum, which commemorates the earliest known specimens of the human genus homo habilis ...

found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still gives me the most enormous thrill is that, now and then ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes ... at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Olduvai handaxe (made 1.2 - 1.4 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania ... collections of the British Museum you can find handaxes ...

A discovery at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge pushes back the timeline of early human tool-making by nearly a million years, according to a study published in Nature. A team of archaeologists led by ...

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 ...

This is an artist's rendition of an early human habitat in East Africa 1.8 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The newly discovered bone tools from Olduvai contribute to our understanding of how hominins engaged with technology to solve the problems that they faced, and how this relationship with ...

In 1931, Leakey made his first trip to the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania -- the site of some ... administrative director of the National Museum of Kenya. In the 1960s Louis became ill ...