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ID: 7025828
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025828
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Laetoli (prehistoric site)  Laetoli (prehistoric site)

Coordinates:
Lat: 03 10 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -3.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 035 05 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in the southern Serengeti Plain, 25 miles from Olduvai Gorge; noted for remains of hominid Australopithecus afarensis, including jaw fragments and footprints providing important evidence of bipedalism; Homo Sapiens and Australopithecus fossils were also found here.

Names:
Laetoli (preferred,C,V)
Laetolil (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanzania (nation)  ........  Tanzania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Arusha Region (region (administrative division))  ............  Arusha Region (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Laetoli (prehistoric site)  ................  Laetoli (prehistoric site) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tanzania (nation)  ........  Tanzania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Arusha Region (region (administrative division))  ............  Arusha Region (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Ngorongoro Conservation Area (protected area)  ................  Ngorongoro Conservation Area (protected area) (P)
Hierarchy of Laetoli (prehistoric site)  ....................  Laetoli (prehistoric site) (P)

Place Types:
prehistoric site (preferred, C)  ............  hominid remains date to 3,590,000 years ago
archaeological site (C)  ............  site was discovered by Mary Leakey and co-workers in 1974-1975; was in situ surface find

Sources and Contributors:
Laetoli..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  African Archaeology (1998) accessed 12/03/2001
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
.................  Getty Conservation Institute, Field Projects [online] (2008-) "Hominid Trackway at Laetoli (1992-1998)," accessed 18 February 2009
Laetolil..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 27 July 2010
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  African Archaeology (1998) accessed 12/03/2001
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 27 July 2010
..........  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 348-349

 

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