Assessing the contribution of Cultural Heritage sites to Tourism Development: a case study of Oldupai and Alaitote footprint area, Tanzania. by Rumishael P. Njau, Juliana Losaru

“…Olduvai Gorge is a site in Tanzania that contains the earliest indication of the existence of human ancestors. …”
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Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa by Linares-Matás, GJ, Clark, J

“…Subsequently, we use the mortality profiles, taxonomic composition, and taphonomy of the bovid assemblages at Kanjera South (Homa Peninsula, Kenya) and FLK-Zinj (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) to illustrate the behavioral flexibility of Oldowan hominins, who were targeting different seasonally vulnerable demographics. …”

The recent and fossil affinities of the genus Pedetes (Mammalia: Rodentia) by Davies, C, Christopher Davies

“…Descriptions are also given of fossil material including <em>Megapedetes pentadactylus</em>, <em>Parapedetes namaquensis</em>, a new species of the genus <em>Pedetes</em> from Laetoli and fragmentary material from a number of sites including Rusinga, Fort Ternan, Maboko, Olduvai Gorge, Taung, Arrisdrift and Elisabethfeld. These descriptions are accompanied by figures, illustrating some of the material, and extensive tables, containing measurements.…”

Changing the name of the NBPF/DUF1220 domain to the Olduvai domain [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by James M. Sikela, Frans van Roy

“…The new name refers to Olduvai Gorge, which is a site in East Africa that has been the source of major anthropological discoveries in the early-mid 1900’s. …”
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Computer vision supports primary access to meat by early Homo 1.84 million years ago by Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Marcos Pizarro-Monzo, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobendas, Blanca Jiménez García, Natalia Abellán Beltrán, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Audax Mabulla, Enrique Baquedano, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

“…Here, deep learning (DL) computer vision was used to identify agency through the analysis of tooth pits and scores on bones recovered from the Early Pleistocene site of DS (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge). We present the first objective evidence of primary access to meat by hominins 1.8 Mya by showing that the most common securely detectable bone-modifying fissipeds at the site were hyenas. …”
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Faunal Assemblages From Lower Bed I (Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania) by Pamela Akuku, Pamela Akuku, Palmira Saladié, Palmira Saladié, Palmira Saladié, Abdallah Mohamed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Pastory Bushozi, Julio Mercader, Julio Mercader, Julio Mercader, Julio Mercader

“…Palaeobiological and archeological excavations at the site of Ewass Oldupa, found in the western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin of Oldupai Gorge (also Olduvai Gorge), Tanzania, revealed rich fossiliferous levels and the earliest remains of human activity at Oldupai Gorge, dated to 2 million years ago. …”
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Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time by Beatrice Demarchi, Shaun Hall, Teresa Roncal-Herrero, Colin L Freeman, Jos Woolley, Molly K Crisp, Julie Wilson, Anna Fotakis, Roman Fischer, Benedikt M Kessler, Rosa Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, Jesper V Olsen, James Haile, Jessica Thomas, Curtis W Marean, John Parkington, Samantha Presslee, Julia Lee-Thorp, Peter Ditchfield, Jacqueline F Hamilton, Martyn W Ward, Chunting Michelle Wang, Marvin D Shaw, Terry Harrison, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Ross DE MacPhee, Amandus Kwekason, Michaela Ecker, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Michael Chazan, Roland Kröger, Jane Thomas-Oates, John H Harding, Enrico Cappellini, Kirsty Penkman, Matthew J Collins

“…Here, we demonstrate the role of mineral binding in preserving the protein sequence in ostrich (Struthionidae) eggshell, including from the palaeontological sites of Laetoli (3.8 Ma) and Olduvai Gorge (1.3 Ma) in Tanzania. By tracking protein diagenesis back in time we find consistent patterns of preservation, demonstrating authenticity of the surviving sequences. …”
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