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An area in northern Tanzania, part of the Ngorongoro Protected Area. Olduvai is 40 km long and has a total area of 250 km². Here were made many important archaeological discoveries: found the remains of ancient man Homo habilis, which is more than 2 million years old, skull australopithecus, the remains of primitive tools of labor and hunting. The gorge is home to the OlduvaiGorge Museum, dedicated to human anthropology and evolution.
Olduvai is a gorge in northern Tanzania. It is a 40-kilometer gorge running along the Serengeti plains in the Ngorongoro Protected Area, about 100 meters deep and 250 square kilometers in area.
The Olduvai Gorge is the site of many prehistoric finds. In particular, the remains of Homo habilis (over 2 million years old), which resembled australopithecine apes but had already crossed the threshold that separated humans from the animal kingdom, were found. An Australopithecus skull, fragmented bones from animals killed in hunting and very crude stone tools of the earliest Paleolithic age were also found.
The gorge now houses the Olduvai Gorge Museum of Anthropology and Human Evolution, which displays the remains of the predecessors of modern man, remains of prehistoric animals, and mammoth tusks.
