Born in Kenya in 1903 to Anglican missionaries, Louis Leakey (in his mother's arms outside the family's mud and thatch house ... the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test ...

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 ...

They were found in the Olduvai ... by the first Genus Homo ancestors have been found. That includes the Oldowan culture, which is responsible for stone artefacts found at the Olduvai Gorge.

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania ... This is one of the first things that humans ever consciously made. And holding it puts me directly ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...