Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world. The site is significant in showing the increasing developmental and social complexities in the earliest humans.
Homo habilis, probably the first early human species, occupied Olduvai Gorge approximately 1.9 million years ago (mya); then came a contemporary australopithecine, Paranthropus boisei, 1.8 mya, and then Homo erectus, 1.2 mya. Homo sapiens is dated to have occupied the site 17,000 years ago.
The Oldowan period, named after this gorge, is the archaeological term used to refer to the earliest stone tool archaeological industry in prehistory.
(Wikipedia)
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Olduvai org Tansaanias on üks olulisemaid eelajalooliste leidude paiku. Selles orus leitud vanimad esemed - kivist tööriistad - on ca 2 mln aastat vanad. Need leiud on edendanud teadmisi inimese varase arengu kohta. Oru järgi on oma nime saanud Olduvai kultuur, vanema paleoliitikumi kultuur põhiliselt Ida- ja Põhja-Aafrikas umbes 2,6– 0,5 miljonit aastat tagasi, mil kasutuses olid algelisimad kiviriistad.
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