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title: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
author: Noel Feans
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17146/olduvai-gorge-tanzania/
format: machine-readable-alternate
license: Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
updated: 2023-03-02
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# Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

_Authored by Noel Feans_

## Image File

[![Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/17146.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/17146.jpg)

## Image Caption

Olduvai (or Oldupai) Gorge in Tanzania is a highly important palaeoanthropological site. [Homo habilis](https://www.worldhistory.org/Homo_Habilis/), Paranthropus boisei, [Homo erectus](https://www.worldhistory.org/Homo_Erectus/) as well as our own [Homo sapiens](https://www.worldhistory.org/Homo_Sapiens/) are known to have been present here. For Homo habilis, it is also the site at which the type specimen was found by Louis and Mary Leakey – well, actually, by their son Jonathan – in the early 1960s. Both the Oldowan tool industry and the Acheulean tool industry are represented at the site.

## Cite This Work

### APA
Feans, N. (2023, March 02). Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17146/olduvai-gorge-tanzania/>
### Chicago
Feans, Noel. "Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." *World History Encyclopedia*, March 02, 2023. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17146/olduvai-gorge-tanzania/>.
### MLA
Feans, Noel. "Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." *World History Encyclopedia*, 02 Mar 2023, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17146/olduvai-gorge-tanzania/>.

## License & Copyright

[Original image](https://www.flickr.com/photos/37563893@N00/4108809278) by **Noel Feans**. Submitted by [Emma Groeneveld](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/emmagroeneveld1/ "User Page: Emma Groeneveld"), published on 02 March 2023. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0deed.en). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.