At Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, natural erosion exposed a series of superimposed geological beds containing rich artifacts and fossil assemblages spanning the past 1.8 million years. The site is famous as a result of excavations conducted there since 1951 under the direction of Mary Leakey and her husband, the late Louis Leakey. This book records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai Gorge sequence, covering the period 1.2 to 0.4 million years ago, and includes artifacts and faunal remains excavated from sites in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds.
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"...an indispensable record of the later part of the earlier Paleolithic at Olduvai Gorge....It contains the essential data from which theoretical constructs can begin to be attempted....an essential reference work for all who wish to understand the Lower Paleolithic." J. Desmond Clark, American Anthropologist
"There is no question that this is an important volume and one that was put together with a great deal of care. The basic data that are supplied here in such detail fill an important void in our understanding of the Olduvai sequence and it will undoubtedly be put to good use to further our understanding of this remote period." Murray C. McClellan, Journal of Field Archaeology
"...Mary Leakey should be congratulated for creating a way to study and to describe it to the general archaeological community." Pamela R. Willoughby, Canadian Jrnl of Archaeology
"There is no question that this is an important volume and one that was put together with a great deal of care. The basic data that are supplied here in such detail fill an important void in our understanding of the Olduvai sequence and it will undoubtedly be put to good use to further our understanding of this remote period." Murray C. McClellan, Journal of Field Archaeology
"...Mary Leakey should be congratulated for creating a way to study and to describe it to the general archaeological community." Pamela R. Willoughby, Canadian Jrnl of Archaeology
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This volume, written largely by Mary Leakey herself, is the last of the reports on the Olduvai excavation and records the archaeological finds in the upper part of the Olduvai sequence from excavations carried out from the end of 1968 until 1971.
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The geology of Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds (see Fig. 1.1) has been described in detail by Dr R.L. Hay in his volume on the geology of the gorge (Hay 1976). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Developed Oldowan, Masek Beds, Fish Gully, Naibor Soit, Upper Bed, West Level, Mary Leakey, Numbers Percentages Tools, Hippo Cliff, Intermediate Channel, Kalambo Falls, Olduvai Gorge, Norkilili Member, Lower Palaeolithic, East Africa, Site Industry, Masek Acheulean, East Acheulean, Ndutu Beds, Olduvai Acheulean, Quartzite Combined, Trachyte Combined, Lower Acheulean, Peter Jones, Handaxes Cleavers New!
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The geology of Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds (see Fig. 1.1) has been described in detail by Dr R.L. Hay in his volume on the geology of the gorge (Hay 1976). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Developed Oldowan, Masek Beds, Fish Gully, Naibor Soit, Upper Bed, West Level, Mary Leakey, Numbers Percentages Tools, Hippo Cliff, Intermediate Channel, Kalambo Falls, Olduvai Gorge, Norkilili Member, Lower Palaeolithic, East Africa, Site Industry, Masek Acheulean, East Acheulean, Ndutu Beds, Olduvai Acheulean, Quartzite Combined, Trachyte Combined, Lower Acheulean, Peter Jones, Handaxes Cleavers New!
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- Geology of the Olduvai Gorge: A Study of Sedimentation in a Semiarid Basin by Richard Leroy Hay in Back Matter
- Laetoli: A Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania (Oxford science publications) by M. D. Leakey in Back Matter
- Disclosing the Past : An Autobiography by Mary D. Leakey in Back Matter
- Early Hominids of Africa by Clifford Jolly in Back Matter
- The Emergence of Man (EV-THEO) by J. Z. Young in Back Matter
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