Oldvuai Gorge

Olduvai Gorge - Northern Tanzania

Olduvai Gorge, in northern Tanzania, is internationally recognized for Louis and Mary Leakey’s famous discoveries of early humans and magnificent antiquities documenting the evolutionary history of our stone tool-using ancestors, vertebrate fauna, and the environments over the last two million years. Research at Olduvai began almost a century ago, producing an unparalleled wealth of archaeological and palaeontological data for the study of some key phases of early human evolution.

Olduvai was the first place where traces of an early stone tool culture were discovered, and gave the name to the Oldowan, nowadays considered as the earliest human technology. Olduvai is also one of the first sites in Africa where the earliest Acheulean was first discovered, and where the traditional view of the Oldowan-Acheulean transition was established.

The disappearance of the earliest human culture, the Oldowan, and its substitution by a new technology, the Acheulean, is one of the main topics in modern Paleoanthropology. The Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project (OGAP) bring together an international team of archaeologists and geologists, whose main goal is to study the mechanisms that led to the origins of the Acheulean in Olduvai Gorge.

Best Time to Visit

Teams of researchers typically visit in the dry season, between June and October, so you may be able

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Wildlife

  • History of findings
  • Game Drives
  • Walking safaris
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Wildlife

Its chief claim to fame is the rich treasure-trove of human and animal fossils that it has

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How to get there

A 30-minute drive from Olduvai you can find a curious phenomena, a shifting sand dune. This dune

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