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World Heritage palaeoanthropologies in Tanzania

2 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder

Laetoli — Hominin Footprint Site

Pliocene (3.66 Ma Laetolil Beds Upper Unit) · Australopithecus afarensis (natural trace)

Laetoli is the 3.66 Ma Pliocene footprint horizon (Site G) 45 km S of Olduvai, where Mary Leakey 1978 found 70 m trail of bipedal hominin footprints (Australopithecus afarensis, 3 individuals) plus…

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder

Olduvai Gorge — Cradle of Humankind

Early Pleistocene to Holocene (2.1 Ma–15 ka Beds I–V) · Paranthropus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus → Maasai

Olduvai Gorge is the 50 km Great Rift tributary gorge (48 m deep) exposing 2.1 Ma to 15 ka stratified sequence where Louis & Mary Leakey found Zinjanthropus (Paranthropus boisei 1.75 Ma), Homo…

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Laetoli — Hominin Footprint Site

Olduvai Gorge — Cradle of Humankind