Tanzania Archive

Olduvai Gorde: Direct Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating Of Olduvai Lithic Industry

Olduvai Gorge: Direct Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating Of Olduvai Lithic Industry

AncientPages.com | March 31, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers published a paper with the results of burial dating using the cosmogenic nuclide isochron method, applied for the first time directly to the

The Maasai Legend Of Giant Lakalanga And His Ancient Footprints

African Mythology

The Maasai Legend Of Hero Lakalanga And His Ancient Footprints

AncientPages.com | July 12, 2019

AncientPages.com - In 1976 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey and other scientists reported that they’d found ancient hominin footprints at a site in Laetoli, northeastern Tanzania. The footprints were frozen

The red paintings are older, made by hunters and gatherers, perhaps even several thousand years ago. The white ones are from several hundred to several dozen years old. Image credit: M. Grzelczyk via Science in Poland

Archaeology

Hundreds Of Rock Paintings Found In Tanzania By Polish Archaeologist

AncientPages.com | July 11, 2018

AncientPages.com - Hundreds of ancient rock paintings have been discovered in the Swaga Swag reserve in the Kondoa region in central Tanzania. Many of the rock art include depictions

Mysterious Ancient Ruins Of Engaruka – Why Was The Site Suddenly Abandoned?

Mysterious Ancient Ruins Of Engaruka – Why Was The Site Abandoned?

AncientPages.com | April 18, 2017

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located in the Great Rift Valley of northern Tanzania, today there are nothing but ruins left of what was once an Iron Age farming community. Researchers have

Archaeology

Spectacular Olduvai Gorge And Early Hominid Fossils Found In East Africa

AncientPages.com | November 26, 2016

AncientPages.com - The Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches through East Africa. It is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains in