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Aug 20, 2024 · Olduvai Gorge was home to some of the earliest hominids. Image credit: melissamn/Shutterstock.com. The story of our species begins in Africa, although our ability to tell that story is based on...
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Apr 4, 2024 · The day after he found Lucy in November 1974, Don Johanson studies the exact spot where he picked up the first bone, her elbow. In camp, Johanson (left in second image) and Maurice Taieb scrutinize and photograph the spectacular find.
The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new and separate plates.
Jun 4, 1994 · Almost all the fossil remains of the ancestors of modern humans come from sites in and around the eastern arm of the East African Rift Valley and from southern Africa.
In 2001, Steve Churchill of Duke University and Lee Berger found early modern human remains at Plovers Lake. Also in 2001, the first hominid fossils and stone tools were discovered in-situ at Cooper's Cave.
Jan 30, 2023 · Some 200,000 years ago, the Rift is inhabited by the earliest creature that is undoubtedly us: the first Homo sapiens, like our ancestor found in Ethiopia. Scrubbed and dressed, he would not turn heads on the streets of modern-day Nairobi, London or New York.
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The Great Rift Valley is located in East Africa, from the northeastern part of the continent down to the southern region. It is one of the great tectonic features of Africa and is characterized by a series of rift basins and fault lines.
