The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't, of course, look anything like a modern axe - there's no handle and there's no metal blade.

They were found in the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa Credit: CSIC They were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It's a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, and contains evidence of ...

OLDUVAI GORGE, Tanzania -- It is a rock, weighing maybe a kilogram, and it has been chipped to be more or less round. It fits comfortably in my hand like a slightly oversize baseball.

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.

The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the ...

Olduvai Gorge is somewhere in East Africa, in modern Tanzania to be precise. Inside its humungous crevices, the oldest human habitations were discovered some time ago. That was until recently when ...

It is not exactly clear which hominin species made the tools, as both Homo erectus and Parathoropus boisei lived in the Olduvai Gorge region 1.5 million years ago, long before modern humans.

However, at Olduvai Gorge – the site where Homo habilis 's discovery reshaped the human family tree – paleontologists have found many bone tools dated to 1.5 million years ago.

Leakey's goal was Olduvai Gorge, a deep crack in the flat savannah of northern Tanzania, not far from the border with Kenya. It's part of the East African Rift Valley, a massive tear in the earth ...