Olduvai Gorge, an unassuming archaeological site ... The Leakeys announced it as another new species and named it Homo habilis, meaning “handy man,” because they believed this species was ...

They called it Homo habilis, or the “handy man”, due ... habilis may be the most infamous ancient hominin to have been found in Olduvai Gorge, but it’s far from the only one.

Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man ... Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, discovered by German ...

While Neanderthals and even Homo erectus have become fixtures in the human origin ... With a team of researchers, the Leakeys were stationed at a dig in the Olduvai Gorge of northern Tanzania in the ...

The early hominins who inhabited the Olduvai Gorge shared their environment with predators such ... the Oldowan and the Acheulean and to shed light on the evolution of Homo habilis and its successor, ...

scientists discovered an even more primitive species of Homo at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania they dubbed Homo habilis, which had a smaller brain and a more apelike skeleton. Now fossils between 1.78 ...

HOMO HABILIS By around 2.5 million years ago ... Such technology is most clearly on display in the excavations at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania - one of Africa's most extraordinary geological sites.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge ... been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei.