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Olduvai Gorge (Paperback)
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Olduvai Gorge (Paperback)
Series: Olduvai Gorge 5 Volume Paperback Set, Volume 3
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Olduvai Groge is a valley in the Serengeti Plains at the western
margin of the Eastern Rift Valley in northern Tanzania. The
formations discussed in this volume, Beds I and II, were deposited
in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene and have yielded large
quantities of the remains of early man, in the form of bones and
stone tools and evidence of the environment in which they lived.
Bed I, in which remains of Australopithecus boisei and Homo habilis
have been found, is firmly dated between 1.9 million years for the
lowest level and 1.65 million years for a level below the top. This
third volume describes the excavations. In Part I, starting with
the lowest levels and devoting a chapter to each main level, Dr
Leakey describes the actual process of excavation and the finding
of the principal remains. In Part II, Dr Leakey describes the
circumstances of the discovery of the hominid skeletal remains.
These range from purposive excavation to accidental discovery while
collecting small stones for mixing in concrete. Finally, mammalian
bones, as tools and as food remains are discussed.
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