A team of international archaeologists and paleoanthropologists unearthed a big amount of stone tools dating back 2 million years during the Early Pleistocene period in addition to fossilized bones and plant materials. The discovery was made at a site called Ewass Oldupa which is located in the western part of the ancient basin Olduvai Gorge (now called Oldupai) in the northern part of Tanzania.
The stone tools that were found were part of the Oldowan which is the oldest-known stone tool industry that dates back 2.6 million years and were believed to have been created by
Homo habilis although it’s known not for certain. The authors noted that while they haven’t found any remains belonging to
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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