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Olduvai Gorge

[ awl-doo-vahy ]

noun

  1. a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.

Olduvai Gorge

/ ˈɒldʊˌvaɪ /

noun

  1. a gorge in N Tanzania, north of the Ngorongoro Crater: fossil evidence of early man and other closely related species, together with artefacts

Olduvai Gorge

  1. A deep ravine in Tanzania famous for the fossils of ancestors of humans found there by Louis and Mary Leakey .

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