Tanzania's Northern Sector
Olduvai Gorge
An infamy gained in its importance to the work of Mary Leakey, Olduvai Gorge hosted the discovery of a 1.7 million year old hominid skull in 1959. Since that eternal discovery, Olduvai Gorge has attracted both archeologists and the masses in search of answers as to the roots of our species.
Slicing its way almost 100m down into the plains northwest of Ngorongoro Crater, this dusty, 50km long ravine is one of the continent’s best known archeological sites. Due to a unique geological history, the Olduvai Gorge is composed of layer upon layer of volcanic deposits laid down in an orderly sequence over a period of almost 2 million years. Because of this, the Olduvai Gorge allows archeologists to chart the story of life back to the days of our earliest ancestors.
