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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.
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...
- Benjamin Taub
The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [ 1 ][ 2 ] While the name ...
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.
- Tristan Mcconnell
The big break came one morning in Olduvai Gorge, an area of Tanzania near the Great Rift Valley that slices East Africa from north to south. Again it was Mary who made the discovery. Louis...
Jun 4, 1994 · Rift where humans began. Africa’s Great Rift Valley is one of the geological wonders of the world. Formed by the violent activities of volcanoes and earthquakes, the tectonic history of this...
Apr 3, 2018 · Many sites where fossils of early hominids were found are located in or near the rift valley. Maybe the rift formed an ideal landscape for our ancestors or, in contrast, as the rift slowly...
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