Volcanic activity approximately half a million years ago formed its Masek beds.  
Volcanic activity approximately half a million years ago formed its Masek beds.  At FLK North, elephant bones are scattered with cut marks from surrounding stone tools while bones of giraffes, antelopes, and hippoes are arranged circularly, renewing the question of early hunting methods.  At the lowest point, the Naisiusiu bed, a complete skeleton of Homo sapiens can be found.  Sharing its name with the unflaked pebble technology of the Basal Paleolithic period which was found there, FTP, name this site at which Mary Leakey discovered the two-million-year old Zinjanthropus, a part of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania.
Volcanic activity approximately half a million years ago formed its Masek beds.  
Olduvai Gorge