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	Olduvai Gorge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Olduvai Gorge is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti Plains, which is in northern Tanzania.
		The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep.
		The gorge was modified by fault shifting and erosion.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/olduvai_gorge.html (638 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		The Olduvai Gorge is a popular side trip because it is a short, convenient detour when traveling between the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater.
		The Olduvai Gorge is where some of the earliest known physical evidence of early man was unearthed.
		Seventeen years later his wife astounded the scientific world by finding near Olduvai Gorge the unmistakable fossilized footprints of a human ancestor who was walking 3 million years ago along a river bank.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /safari/side_olduvai.htm (211 words)

	The Olduvai Gorge
		Olduvai Gorge is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti Plains.
		The gorge is a steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep.
		Skeletal remains of hominids on the oldest bed of the gorge are assigned to the Homo Habilis an Australopithecus Boisei families.
	www.takimsholidays.com /safaris/olduvaigorge.asp (398 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
		Olduvai Gorge is a 50-km-long (30-mile), 90-meter-deep (295-foot) ravine located in the eastern Serengeti Plains of northern Tanzania, within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
		Olduvai Gorge attracted widespread attention among archeologists in 1959 when Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized skull of zinjanthropus, a human ancestor that scientists believe lived in the region 1.8 million years ago.
		Speculation that the gorge might be situated near a settlement region for humanity’s earliest civilization has led some to nickname it the “Cradle of Mankind.” Meanwhile, ongoing research in the gorge continues to yield new insights into what life was like for our earliest ancestors.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16869 (363 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		OLDUVAI GORGE [Olduvai Gorge], a feature of the E African Rift Valley in Tanzania.
		The site was made famous by the numerous hominid fossils excavated by Louis Leakey and his wife, Mary Leakey, as well as by later researchers.
		Recent research in Olduvai has centered on excavated camp sites addressing problems involving the social and dietary adaptations of early hominids.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-OlduvaiG.html (297 words)

	Investigating Olduvai CD-ROM. Archaeology of Human Origins
		Students are introduced to the geological setting of Olduvai Gorge, and the history of discoveries at sites along the gorge.
		Development: The Olduvai project began in June 1992, and within three months we had produced a prototype of the program that my students tested.
		Investigating Olduvai has been used by my students for assignments in a variety of different courses, every semester since fall 1992.
	www.indiana.edu /~origins/teach/Olduvai.html (437 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - Safari Tanzania
		Olduvai Gorge is a canyon carved by water through the southern part of the Serengeti Plain.
		The gorge is about 50 km long and in some places 90 metres deep.
		The descendants of Laetoli's upright-walkers were at Olduvai.
	www.tanzania-adventure.com /olduvai.htm (685 words)

	African Trails Limited :: Olduvai Gorge
		Olduvai Gorge, also known as The Cradle of Mankind, is locally called
		Known the world over for the fantastic archeological discoveries made by doctors Louis and Mary Leakey, including the skull of a humanoid, which is believed to be 1.75 million years old.
		It is possible to enter the gorge with a special guide.
	www.africantrails.com /olduvai.htm (168 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Olduvai Gorge - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Olduvai Gorge, ravine and archaeological site, northern Tanzania, in the eastern Serengeti Plain.
		In the later years of his career, Leakey became increasingly interested in primate behavior.
	encarta.msn.com /Olduvai_Gorge.html (125 words)

	Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania with Bobby Tours And Safaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Olduvai is world famous for the archaeological discoveries made there by Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey.
		Olduvai Gorge, the "cradle of mankind", lies on the short grass plains of the Serengeti.
		The name Olduvai is a corruption of 'oldupai', the name given by the Maasai to the wild sisal growing in the Gorge.
	www.bobbytours.com /olduvai_gorge.htm (703 words)

	ASTER Image Gallery: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Olduvai Gorge is an archaeological site located in the eastern Serengeti Plains, northern Tanzania within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
		The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 50 km long and 90 m deep.
		This simulated natural color ASTER image was acquired on February 1, 2001, covers an area of 35.3 x 37.6 km, and is centered near 2.8 degrees south latitude and 35.1 degrees east longitude.
	asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery-detail.asp?name=Olduvai (144 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The stratigraphy is extremely deep and layers of volcanic ashes and stones allow radiometric dating of the embedded artifacts, mostly through potassium-argon dating.
		Olduvai is the location of the first monolith in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey series of books.
		Leakey, M.D., 1971: Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in beds I and II 1960- 1963, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; Disclosing the Past, Doubleday and Co., New York, 1984, ISBN 0-385-18961-3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olduvai_Gorge (589 words)

	Olduvai Gorge
		Their finds over more than three decades of work in the field, much of it spent in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, helped redraw the human family tree.
		Olduvai Gorge, a feature of the East African Rift Valley in Tanzania.
		Examples of at least three species of hominids have been found at Olduvai, including Australopithecus boisei, Homo habilis, and In addition, the two earliest stone tool traditions, Oldowan and Acheulian have been found along with fossil remains.
	simbaeastafricansafari.com /olduvai_gorge.htm (974 words)

	Olduvai Gorge :: Oldupai Gorge :: Ngorongoro conservation area:: Shifting Sands Ngorongoro
		The steep sided gorges is nearly 90 meters high and its extension is 50 kilometers long.
		Apart from Olduvai Gorge, which reminds us of the origin of mankind, there are also the ruins of the ancient city, which are marked by stone terrace and the complex irrigation system at Engaruka within Conservation Area
		There is the volcanic ash dune of Shifting Sands situated near Olduvai Gorge.
	www.utalii.com /Ngorongoro/Olduvai_Gorge.htm (291 words)

	Olduvai Gorge
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		Frank does, that olduvai gorge was he merely caressed and talked to him it was so small a matter of olduvai gorge financial ventures.
		But time was long since passed when they passed, with a olduvai gorge wooden central tower of old rose, with larceny, second with embezzlement, embezzlement, embezzlement on a separate organization or company of young men seeking to be, all living in better ones.
	www.uaxc.com /93/olduvai-gorge.html (726 words)

	World Tours and Safaris Tanzania
		Like the sisal, most Olduvai plants have thorns, spines, poisons or other defenses in order to preserve their water and lives during the long dry months.
		The Gorge itself isn't of great interest unless you are archeologically inclined.
		Olduvai Gorge is about 235km away from Arusha town, and is reached for two days one night
	www.world-tours-safaris.com /olduvai.htm (170 words)

	THE PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION - Richard C. Duncan
		The Olduvai theory explains the 1979 peak and the subsequent decline.
		I chose the name "Olduvai" because (1) it is justly famous, (2) I've been there, (3) its long hollow sound is eerie and ominous, and (4) it is a good metaphor for the 'Stone Age way of life'.
		In fact, the Olduvai way of life was (and still is) a sustainable way of life — local, tribal, and solar — and, for better or worse, our ancestors practiced it for millions of years.
	dieoff.com /page224.htm (5389 words)

	Olduvai Gorge - Victoria Expeditions Tanzania
		The fifty km long Olduvai Gorge between the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti has on several occasions shed the light over the origin of human kind.
		Shortly thereafter they found fossils which had even greater similarity to humans, and they came to the conclusion that this had to be a new species, Homo habilis (the able man), who lived in the Olduvai Gorge at the same time of the zinjanthropus.
		A visit to Olduvai Gorge is listed as an option in most of our safari tours.
	www.victoriatz.com /olduvai.htm (359 words)

	World Energy Production, Population Growth, and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge; Richard Duncan
		The Olduvai Gorge is a gentle picturesque valley that extends east to west within the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.
		The Olduvai theory, however, deals neither with the layered geology or the famous paleontology of the Olduvai Gorge.
		The main goals for this section are threefold: (1) to discuss the Olduvai theory from 1930 to 2030, (2) to identify the important energy events during this time, and (3) to stress that Industrial Civilization = Electrical Civilization = the 'modern way of life.' Figure 4 depicts the Olduvai theory.
	www.greatchange.org /ov-duncan,road_to_olduvai_gorge.html (6079 words)

	Tanzania - Tour - Olduvai Gorge
		Olduvai Gorge is located in northern Tanzania, and is an archaeological site of great importance.
		Commonly, Olduvai Gorge is called the Cradle of Mankind - as it is the place where humanity first appeared as a species.
		The first humans ever to exist, lived their life in Tanzania, specifically, as fossil records show that Olduvai Gorge was one of the earliest inhabited valleys.
	www.internationalvoting.com /tanzania/explore6.html (230 words)

	1.8 Million-Year-Old Hominid Jaw Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Summary Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge has yielded an impressive pile of fossilized bones and stone tools that may reshuffle the evolutionary tree of the early hominids and shed light on the behavior of some of humankind's earliest ancestors.
		Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge has yielded an impressive pile of fossilized bones and stone tools that may reshuffle the evolutionary tree of the early hominids and shed light on the behavior of some of human kind's earliest ancestors.
		The gorge is most noted for the abundant fossil discoveries of esteemed anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey from 1959 to 1976 which helped shape modern understanding of human origins.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/02/0220_030220_olduvaijaw.html (677 words)

	Olduvai Found Gorge Million Early
		Located in the eastern Plains of the Serengeti National Park, northern Tanzania, the Olduvai Gorge is a deep ravine running an impressive 48km in length and 295 feet (90 metres) deep.
		The gorge was formed by the same tectonic upheavals that shaped the Great African Rift Valley.
		Today - the Olduvai Gorge makes for a stunning visit and there is a small museum packed with information about the archaeological treasures found here.
	www.naturalhighsafaris.com /knowledge/culture/olduvaigorge.html (328 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Leakey family discovers human ancestors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love.
		From the late 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in Olduvai and elsewhere, found several extinct vertebrates, including the 25-million-year-old Pronconsul primate, one of the first and few fossil ape skulls to be found.
		Their work at Olduvai Gorge had been interrupted by political uprisings in nearby Kenya, but late in the 1950s, they returned.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do59le.html (485 words)

	Olduvai George
		O.k., enough purging; Olduvai after all is my attempt to get away from responsibilities and lack of (fill in your own blank) for a few moments each day.
		Olduvai George is the alter ego of natural history illustrator Carl Buell.
		Olduvai is everything Carl is not, fearless, intelligent, and fictional.
	olduvaigeorge.com (6457 words)

	Olduvai Gorge
		This was taken near the Olduvai Gorge, though, with some Masai warriors who were just fascinated by yours truly.
		The Masai are a famous warrior tribe, long known for their rite of passage into manhood: killing a lion by yourself with only a spear.
		Olduvai Gorge, by the way, is where Dr. Leakey, the famous anthropologist, found the earliest recorded human bones.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/wyndham/128/olduvai.html (204 words)

	Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age, by Richard Duncan
		Note 3: Since the 1950s, the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has been strongly associated with human origins and the Stone Age way-of-life.
		The Olduvai theory explains the Figure 2 data, but the exponential-growth theory (of mainstream economics) and the steady-state theory both fail.
		The Olduvai theory cannot be overthrown (i.e., scientifically rejected) by outrage or indignation.
	dieoff.org /page125.htm (3053 words)

	Early Man at Olduvai Gorge - Earthwatch Institute - United States
		Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania — Our modern understanding of human evolution began with finds by Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey in this rugged gorge, where faulting and erosion have laid bare 100 meters of sediment spanning two million years.
		Following in the Leakeys' footsteps to work in this legendary, arid gorge, you will help survey for evidence of hominid activity and dig 4 x 2 meter trenches and sieve dirt for smaller artifacts and fossils.
		At the southern end of the Serengeti Plain, Olduvai is less than an hour away from the Ngorongoro Crater and harbors abundant wildlife as well, including giraffes, elephants, antelopes, hyenas, and more.
	www.earthwatch.org /expeditions/masao.html (409 words)

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		When the Leakeys found crudely chipped stones in the long-buried lake beds at Olduvai Gorge, they were indeed nothing much to look at.
		We now know that the Olduvai hominids were adept stone toolmakers, using angular flakes and lumps of lava to make weapons, scrapers, and cutting tools.
		Many of the choppers from Olduvai and Koobi Fora are actually "waste," cores discarded when as many flakes as possible had been removed from them.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/koobi/oldowan.html (1278 words)

	The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge
		The Olduvai theory has been called unthinkable, preposterous, absurd, dangerous, self-fulfilling, and self-defeating.
		The Olduvai theory is a data-based schema that states that the life expectancy of Industrial Civilization is less than or equal 100 years.
		In fact, the Olduvai way of life was (and still is) a sustainable way of life - local, tribal, and solar - and, for better or worse, our ancestors practiced it for millions of years.
	www.hubbertpeak.com /duncan/olduvai2000.htm (5384 words)

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