Megalithic Portal: Latest from Tanzania

Isimila

bat400 — Tue, 17 May 2016 14:35:43 GMT

]]>Reputed to have been inhabited for 300,000 years, the Isimila Stone Age Site in Tanzania is known for masses of stone tools eroding out of a dry lake bed. There is a museum with small, well-captioned displays highlighting some of the finds.

Dodoma Stones

Shakti — Tue, 17 May 2016 07:08:45 GMT

]]>Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Tanzania

Were Ancient Fossil Bone Marks Made by Stone Tools or Biting Animals?

coldrum — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:18:55 GMT

]]>"There's really no solid, standard method of analyzing these bones that is used by all researchers.". Are they marks left by a biting crocodile or an early human using a stone tool?That's a question that deserves more careful consideration than it may have garnered in the past, according to Jackson Njau, an assistant professor at Indiana University. An expert at reading bones, he is also former principal curator of the National Natural History Museum in Arusha, Tanzania and co-director of field research at paleontological sites in eastern Africa's Olduvai Gorge, one of the most famous regions bearing on human evolution and the fossil record.

World's earliest sophisticated stone tools found in northwest Kenya.

mikeaitch — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:54:25 GMT

The teardrop-shaped hand-axes date to about 1.76 million years ago, and would have been used for a range of tasks from chopping wood to cutting up meat. They would have been so useful in fact that scientists describe them as the "Swiss army knife" of the Stone Age.

Deconstructing Olduvai

coldrum — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:50:35 GMT

Early Man: Scavenger, Hunter, or Something Else?. The Olduvai Paleoanthropological and Paleoecological Project (TOPPP) in which the the Universidad Complutense de Madrid participated aims to expose the false presumptions made by previous studies which concluded that the first humans were scavengers. This is a well established model that has stood unchallenged until recently. The discussion is on.

Gong Rock

bat400 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:59:16 GMT

]]>Rock Art in Tanzania.The Masai say that in the past they used Gong Rock to summon people from over the Serengeti plains. The large stone (over 2 meters long and standing over a meter high) is covered with rounded depressions from the impact of generations of strikes.