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Oldest Hominins of Olduvai Gorge Persisted Across Changing Environments ~2.0 to 1.8 million year-old archaeological site demonstrates that early humans had the skills and tools to cope with ecological change
Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania, made famous by Louis and Mary Leakey. New interdisciplinary field work has led to the discovery of the oldest archaeological site in Oldupai Gorge as reported in Nature Communications, which shows that early human used a wide diversity of habitats amidst environmental changes across a 200,000 year-long period.
Overview of Ewass Oldupa in Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge, Tanzania
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Stone tools found at Oldupai Gorge, an African site considered by many to be where humans first appeared are shown in this undated handout photo. To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks.
To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the earliest days of human technology. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Arturo Cueva Temprana MANDATORY CREDIT January 07, 2021 - 2:00 AM
To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks.
To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the dawn of human technology. It is really the beginnings of technological dependence, said Mercader, lead author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature.
Brandon Sun By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press Posted:
To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks.
To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the dawn of human technology.
Stone tools found at Oldupai Gorge, an African site considered by many to be where humans first appeared are shown in this undated handout photo. To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks.To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the earliest days of human technology. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Arturo Cueva Temprana MANDATORY CREDIT
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