Book ID 39
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: - 2,500,000
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Extract ID: 840
Ngorongoro perhaps as big as Kilimanjaro, and collapses inward
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: - 3,600,000
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Extract ID: 842
Sadiman erupts capturing the footprints at Laetoli
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: - 15M
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Extract ID: 843
Early rift obscured by lava from the volcanoes
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: - 20M
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Extract ID: 844
Crack developed - the Great Rift
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: - 70,000,000
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Extract ID: 845
African continent now in present shape and position
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: -200M
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Extract ID: 829
supercontinent of 'Pangaea' starts splitting to form the continents
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 10
Extract Date: 1983
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Extract ID: 766
... it last erupted in 1983, and could erupt again any day.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 10
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Extract ID: 839
Main features of the area now formed
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 10
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Extract ID: 841
Manyara rift is formed
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 11
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Extract ID: 846
Pastoralists live in Serengeti and Ngorongoro - called the Stone Bowl people
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 11
See also
Extract ID: 980
all traces of Stone Bowl People disappear
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 11
Extract Date: 0
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Extract ID: 600
sometime in last 2000 years the Mbulu people arrive (now called the Iraqw)
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 12
Extract Date: 1400
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Extract ID: 220
the ruined 'city' of Engaruka is at least 500 years old
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 12
Extract Date: 1600
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Extract ID: 190
300 years ago or more the first of the Nilo-Hamatic groups arrive - the Datago (also called the Barabaig or Mangati)
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 12
Extract Date: 1840
See also
Extract ID: 540
about 150 years ago the Datago were defeated by the Maasai in the Ngorongoro Crater. The massive fig trees northwest of Lerai Forest ... are sacred to the Maasai and Datoga people. Some of them may have been planted on the grave of a Datago leader who died in battle with the Maasai around 1840.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 13
Extract Date: 1930's
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Extract ID: 682
Road constructed through Ngorongoro
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 13
Extract Date: 1948
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Extract ID: 688
National Parks Ordinance
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 13
Extract Date: 1956
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Extract ID: 695
Conflict between Park Authorities and Maasai caused park to be split up. Maasai moved out of Serengeti Park, but not excluded from Ngorongoro
these from the first edition
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 13
Extract Date: 1978
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Extract ID: 713
Ngorongoro made World Heritage Site
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 38
Extract Date: 1962
See also
Extract ID: 705
Lions in Ngorongoro reduced to 15 by plague of biting flies
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1913
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Extract ID: 861
Professor Hans Reck's expedition to Olduvai to collect fossils, sponsored by the Kaiser
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1913
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Extract ID: 779
Professor Hans Reck's expedition to Olduvai to collect fossils, sponsored by the Kaiser
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1931
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Extract ID: 862
Leakey organised an expedition to Olduvai with Reck, and found stone tools within hours of arriving.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1959
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Extract ID: 506
Mary Leakey finds 'Zinjanthropus' now renamed Australopithicus boisei
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1972
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Extract ID: 503
Leaky Dies
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 63
Extract Date: 1976
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Extract ID: 508
Mary Leakey discovered tracks at Laetoli
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 65
Extract Date: - 1,750,000
See also
Extract ID: 837
Australopithicus boisei
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 65
Extract Date: - 1,890,000
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Extract ID: 838
Olmoti erupted, and thick lava flows covered the area now occupied by Olduvai gorge. Lake Olduvai formed in the area
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 17,000
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Extract ID: 830
skeleton of homo sapiens found at Olduvai
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 100,000 to 0
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Extract ID: 831
only Lengai erupts - forming Ndutu bed.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 100,000 to -30,000
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Extract ID: 832
severe phase of faulting at Olduvai. Foothills of Ngorongoro subside and become Olbalbal depression. River cuts through to form Olduvai Gorge.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 400,000 to -100,000
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Extract ID: 833
ash from Kerimasi's eruptions form the Masek beds. Quartzite handaxes found.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 800,000
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Extract ID: 834
Climate improves. Still evidence of home erectus
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 1,200,000
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Extract ID: 835
evidence of homo erectus appears, and Australopithicus boisei disappears. Climate becomes hotter and dryer
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 66
Extract Date: - 1,500,000
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Extract ID: 836
Lake Olduvai drains because of earth movements and faulting, but a river flows through the area
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1998
Page Number: 84
See also
Extract ID: 95
We wish to thank in particular the Conservators of NCA with whom we have worked over the years: Mr H Fosbrooke, Mr A Mgina, Mr. S.ole Saibull, and Mr J Kayera.
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early on our interest in and knowledge about Ngorongoro was greatly enhanced by . . . . George and Lory Frame,
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J.ole Kwai and Tepilit ole Saitoti have helped us in our research and also to understand the Maasai people of the area.
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Felician Baraza and Sebastian Chuwa, knowledgeable in general and experts on plant life in particular have been extraordinarily tolerant of our questions over the many years that it has taken to answer them!
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The first publication of this book (NCA guide) was facilitated by our ever-helpful friends Walter Bgoya, Per and Margaret Kullander, Aadje Geertsema, Deberah Snelson, and Neil and Liz Baker
