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Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963
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Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963 Hardcover - 1972

by M. D. Leakey; Foreword by J. D. Clark

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Olduvai Groge is a valley in the Serengeti Plains at the western margin of the Eastern Rift Valley in northern Tanzania. The formations discussed in this volume, Beds I and II, were deposited in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene and have yielded large quantities of the remains of early man, in the form of bones and stone tools and evidence of the environment in which they lived. Bed I, in which remains of Australopithecus boisei and Homo habilis have been found, is firmly dated between 1.9 million years for the lowest level and 1.65 million years for a level below the top. This third volume describes the excavations. In Part I, starting with the lowest levels and devoting a chapter to each main level, Dr Leakey describes the actual process of excavation and the finding of the principal remains. In Part II, Dr Leakey describes the circumstances of the discovery of the hominid skeletal remains. These range from purposive excavation to accidental discovery while collecting small stones for mixing in concrete. Finally, mammalian bones, as tools and as food remains are discussed.

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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).

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  • Title Olduvai Gorge: Volume 3, Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963
  • Author M. D. Leakey; Foreword by J. D. Clark
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, London
  • Date January 28, 1972
  • ISBN 9780521077231 / 0521077230
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88020398
  • Dewey Decimal Code 569.9

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