Tanzania Culture History and Archaeology

Peninj: World's Earliest Woodworking?
Excavations at this Homo erectus site, being excavated by the Universidad Complutense, have revealed the world's oldest wood working tools to date; a brief article in Archaeology magazine.

Investigating Olduvai CD-ROM. Archaeology of Human Origins
From Jeanne Sept at Indiana University, a CD-Rom on the archaeology of human origins.

Chellean Man (Tanzania)
Chellean man is the name given to a Homo erectus skull with an extremely large brow ridge, found by Louis Leakey in 1960.

Engaruka
The archaeological site of Engaruka dates to the late Iron Age (15th to 16th centuries AD), and is located in the Rift Valley of Tanzania.

Kilwa Kisiwani - Port City of Tanzania
On a small island off the coast of Tanzania lies the site of Kilwa Kisiwani, also called Kilwa, the most important of about thirty-five trading sites on the Indian Ocean during the 11th through 16th centuries AD.

Laetoli (Tanzania)
Laetoli is the name of an archaeological site in Tanzania, where by some very odd twist of fate, the footprints of three Australopithecineshave have been preserved some 3.6 million years.

Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania is an ancient hominid archaeological site in Tanzania, excavated by the Leakeys in the mid-1950s.

Ras Mkumbuu
The archaeological site of Ras Mkumbuu was a 10th century trading port on the east coast of Africa with a substantial Muslim occupation.