“I was born in East Africa,” he would later write ... Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, discovered by German ...

Olduvai Gorge is one of the most famous archaeological ... perhaps early hominins in this particular region of East Africa experimented with bone tools, but the idea didn’t spread widely or ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

The Olduvai Gorge is in Tanzania, East Africa and is also part of a UNESCO World Heritage site often referred to as the “Cradle of Humankind." study coauthor Jackson Njau, associate professor in ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

Such technology is most clearly on display in the excavations at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania - one of Africa's most extraordinary geological sites. The gorge cuts through five colourful volcanic ...

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

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

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 ...

He graduated in 1926, not long after Raymond Dart first found very early human remains in South Africa. In 1931, Leakey made his first trip to the Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania -- the ...