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ID: 7016559
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016559
Record Type:
physical
Olduwai Gorge (gorge)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 58 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -2.9660
decimal degrees
Long: 035 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.3660
decimal degrees
Note:
Gorge situated in the Serengeti Plain; first noted for its importance as an archaeological site in 1913 but not extensively excavated until 1959; now famed for rich fossil beds where fossil skull of early hominid Zinjanthropus was found.
Names:
Olduwai Gorge
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Oldoway Gorge
(
C
,
V
)
Olduvai Gorge
(
C
,
V
)
Oldowan Gorge
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
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Arusha
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Olduwai Gorge
(gorge) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Arusha
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
(protected area) (
P
)
....................
Olduwai Gorge
(gorge) (
P
)
Place Types:
gorge (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
since 1913
Sources and Contributors:
Oldowan Gorge..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
444
Oldoway Gorge..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 July 2010
Olduvai Gorge..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
888
Olduwai Gorge..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 1 October 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2010
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 July 2010
..................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
444
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
888
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2010
..........
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (1999)
444-445
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