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Who rediscovered Olduvai Gorge?
The Leakeys
What is a deep canyon excavated by the leakeys?
It is the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
What continent is the Olduvai gorge on?
It is in Africa.
Where are Olduvai Gorge and Hadar?
Olduvai is located in northern Tanzania. Hadar is a village in Ethiopia.
Olduvai gorge is located in what country?
Tanzania
Where is the tanzanian fossil site?
olduvai gorge
What was found at Olduvai gorge?
From the late 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in the Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere, found several extinct vertebrates, including the 25-million-year-old Pronconsul primate, one of the first and few fossil ape skulls to be found. Their work at Olduvai Gorge had been interrupted by political uprisings in nearby Kenya, but late in the 1950s, they returned. The Leakeys were interested in prehistoric tools, but more and more wanted to find evidence of the people who made them. In 1959, they did.
What country is Olduvai Gorge Tanzania located?
Tanzania .
What was Mary Leakeys field of study?
Mary Leakey originally studied archaeology and met her husband Louis while working as an archaeological illustrator. She became director of the excavations at Olduvai gorge, a site well known for its fossil hominid remains. She is most well known for her work as a palaeoanthropologist at Olduvai and the surrounding area and in her time discovered many new species.
Olduvai Gorge is part of what ancient geological formation?
ottoman empire
Who discovered the ancient footprints of olduvai gorge?
Mary Leakey discovered the ancient footprints at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in 1978. These footprints provided evidence of early human ancestors walking upright around 3.6 million years ago.
What is the gorge in Tanzania where the Leakey family found bones of people that lived 1.75 million years ago?
Olduvai Gorge
