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Since then, excavators working in Olduvai have found skeletal remains of a number of ancient hominids – Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Australopithecus Boisei.
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Since then, excavators working in Olduvai have found skeletal remains of a number of ancient hominids – Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Australopithecus Boisei.
Archive 2008-07-01 jen 2008
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The name Olduvai originated from a European misspelling of Oldupai, the correct Maasai word for this region of great historical importance – named after the wild sisal plant fibre growing in abundance in the gorge.
Archive 2008-07-01 jen 2008
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The name Olduvai originated from a European misspelling of Oldupai, the correct Maasai word for this region of great historical importance – named after the wild sisal plant fibre growing in abundance in the gorge.
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The skull of Paranthropus was discovered by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and helped put the Leakeys on the world stage.
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That went out the window with Olduvai Gorge, and good riddance.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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In other words, the sharp stone flakes spread over Olduvai were not used primarily as weapons to kill animals or to hack down plants, but to process dead animals that had already been brought down by other carnivores.
Love of animals led to language and man's domination of Earth 2011
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If you read up on “PEAK OIL”, EROEI, ‘Olduvai Gorge Post-Industrial Stone Age’, and Evolutionary Darwinism you will understand why our unsustainable way of life is coming to an end.
Its official Match.com Abandons Paid Dating… « The Paradigm Shift 2009
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These crafted pieces of stone still litter sites in eastern Africa, including the Olduvai Gorge in Kenya, and bear testimony to the mental transformation in our ancestors' brains.
Love of animals led to language and man's domination of Earth 2011
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Leakey hired her as a secretary and invited her to participate in an anthropological dig at the now famous Olduvai Gorge, a site rich in fossilized prehistoric remains of early ancestors of humans.
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