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Maasai People
The Maasai (or Masai) people are an East African tribe who today principally occupy the territory of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, and who speak the language of the same name. The Nilo-Saharan Maasai migrated southwards to that region...
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Paleolithic
The Palaeolithic ('Old Stone Age') makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age – the large swathe of time during which hominins used stone to make tools – and ranges from the first known tool use roughly 2,6 million years ago...
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Oldowan Tools
The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as Oldowan tools or the Oldowan industry, marked the beginning of our technological revolution. To our knowledge, these artifacts appeared around 2.6 million years ago in the savannahs of...
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Homo Rudolfensis
Homo rudolfensis is an early human species that lived in East Africa between c. 2.5 and 1.8 million years ago. It is known from a handful of skull, jaw and teeth fragments that remind alternatingly of Homo or of Australopithecus and that...
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Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Olduvai (or Oldupai) Gorge in Tanzania is a highly important palaeoanthropological site. Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo erectus as well as our own Homo sapiens are known to have been present here. For Homo habilis, it is also the...
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Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Speakers: Stephen Battle, Program Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Monuments Fund and Steven Zucker
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Kilwa Map Illustration
An illustration of the trading city-state of Kilwa on the Swahili Coast (modern Tanzania) which flourished between the 12th and 15th century CE. (From Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's 'atlas Civitates orbis terrarum', vol. I, 1572 CE)
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Great Mosque, Kilwa
The ruins of the Great Mosque of Kilwa on the Swahili Coast (modern Tanzania). Constructed during the reign of al Hasan ibn Suleiman (r. 1320-1333 CE).
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Olduvai Gorge Monument
The Olduvai Gorge monument in Tanzania consists of large-scale sculpted models of Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis resting on a stone platform. The monument welcomes visitors as they reach the road leading to the gorge and its museum...
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Oldowan Chopper
Chopper made from basalt by early humans between 1,8 and 2 million years ago. It belongs to the Oldowan stone tool industry, was found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - the place the industry is named after. Its dimensions are length: 9.29 cm...