Hominins at Olduvai Gorge may have been hunting prey 2 million years ago. Early hominins are known to have eaten meat, but until recently, the origins of the meat were less clear. The earliest ...

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 ...

“Taken together, the data we gathered presents the earliest evidence for human activity in the Olduvai Gorge: about 2 million ...

Found from 1960 in Olduvai Gorge and dating from 1.9 to 1.6 million years ago, they were identified in 1964 by Louis Leakey and the author amidst great controversy as a hitherto unrecognised species ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million ... years ago. Listen to an expert at Olduvai ...

21:58 Weather View full schedule 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 ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't ... on the way to something we would all recognise as society. So, 1.2 million years ago, where are we? We can make tools like our handaxe, that help us control ...

The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.