Olduvai Gorge - The cradle of mankind
by Pravine Chester
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Olduvai Gorge - The cradle of mankind
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Pravine Chester
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The Olduvai Gorge is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world. It holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. This is where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered fossilized parts of a skull and upper teeth of a type of hominin. In 1986 a team of archeologists unearthed bones and teeth belonging to a female that was determined to be 1.8 million years old.
The Gorge is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation area and is 30 miles long and 295 feet deep. The excavation sites have been preserved. At the top of the Gorge there is a small museum containing fossil casts of early hominids, tools, artifacts and fossils of various animals that roamed this area millions of years ago.
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