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Tour audio The Cradle of Humankind

Welcome to The Cradle of Humankind, a fascinating journey back to our origins

Get ready to go back nearly 4 million years and take a tour of the geology and ecology of the Great Rift Valley with over two hundred pieces– tools and fossils – unearthed since 2006 on the Olduvai and Laetoli sites in Tanzania.

A never-before-seen display of original fossils and lithics from the National Museum of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) and excavations by The Olduvai Paleonthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP), showing you the 4 major groups of hominids in our history!

UNIT 1 – AUSTRALOPITHECINES

The discovery of Lucy, the first Australopithecus Afarensis, and the footprints found at Laetoli (Tanzania), showed that by 3.6 million years ago hominids were already fully bipedal.

UNIT 2 –HOMO HABILIS

The first stone tools appear in the evolutionary record about 2.6 million years ago.

UNIT 3 –HOMO ERECTUS/ERGASTER

The earliest remains of Homo Erectus, the first hominid to adopt a high-quality diet of meat and who used the hand axe as a main tool, date back 1.8 million years.

UNIT 4 –HOMO SAPIENS

The brain evolved and 200,000 years ago archaic Homo Sapiens appeared, hominids with a morphology similar to our own.

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  • muzeo

    5 out of 5 rating 12-10-2016

    también ermitage

  • espectacular

    5 out of 5 rating 11-28-2016

    gracias

  • Maika

    5 out of 5 rating 10-29-2016

    Gracias. Ha sido muy especial para los niños y para mí. Gracias de nuevo.

  • Gina

    5 out of 5 rating 10-04-2016

    Genial!

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