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Olduvai Gorge

Tanzanian ravine where Mary and Louis Leakey's excavations from the 1950s recovered nearly two million years of stratified hominin evolution - Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis, Homo erectus - alongside the Oldowan pebble tools that mark some of the earliest known deliberate stone toolmaking.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 1,890,000 years ago mainstream
  earliest hominin fossils (Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei) source
• 1959 CE mainstream
  Mary Leakey's discovery of the 'Zinjanthropus' skull source

Where

2.9936° S, 35.3511° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_Gorge

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