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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory: Second Edition (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
by Eric Delson
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... resulted in a meeting with Hans Reck. A prominent German paleontologist, Reck had discovered a complete fossil human skeleton in Olduvai Gorge (then called Oldoway), Tanzania (then German East Africa), in 1913, and had been part of a German expedition to Tendaguru. ... "
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Koobi Fora, East Africa, Mau Mau, South Africa, Olduvai Gorge, Clark Howell, handaxe site, monthly field report, handaxe culture, hippopotamus gorgops, other paleoanthropologists, orangutan study
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Guide to Fossil Man
by Michael H. Day
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... a convenient, if non-committal, name. The Arago XLIV hip bone shows marked similarities to the Homo erectus hip bone from Olduvai Gorge (Olduvai Hominid 28 (q.v.)) and to the hip bone from Koobi Fora (KNM-ER 3228 (q.v.)) (Day, 1982: Sigmon, 1982). ... "
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Koobi Fora, Middle Pleistocene, Border Cave, New York, South Africa, Olduvai Gorge, tuff complex, fossil mammalian bones, jetis fauna, glabellar fragment, craniofacial fragment, symphysial region
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Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook
by Gary M. Feinman
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with references to "Olduvai Gorge".
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... stone cores and flakes are often called "Oldowan" industries (especially at early sites in Africa), after early sites found at Olduvai Gorge (Leakey, 1971). These also are often referred to as Mode I industries to indicate simply flaked cores and flaking products ... "
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