Olduvai Gorge
A ravine in the west of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where Mary and Louis Leakey spent more than 30 years uncovering early human fossils and stone tools. A museum near the gorge displays the finds.
- Part of
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Olduvai has produced a long sequence of fossils of early human species, from Australopiths such as Zinjanthropus boisei to Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. The best-known find is the Zinjanthropus skull.
Many of the artefacts are kept in the museum on the way to the gorge. Laetoli, where fossilised footprints record early upright walking, is also in the conservation area.