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ID: 7016559
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016559

 

Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Olduwai Gorge (gorge)  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:
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 Olduwai Gorge (gorge)  ................  Olduwai Gorge (gorge) (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 Olduwai Gorge (gorge)  ....................  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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