Name ID 506
Ofcansky, Thomas P and Yeager, Rodger Historical Dictionary of Tanzania
Page Number: xvii
Extract Date: 1000 BC
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Extract ID: 1202
Original Khoi-San hunters and gatherers are disturbed by pastoral Cushistic migrations from Ethiopia.
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Page Number: 65
Extract Date: - 1,750,000
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Extract ID: 837
Australopithicus boisei
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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
Page Number: 10
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Extract ID: 839
Main features of the area now formed
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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
Page Number: 10
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Extract ID: 841
Manyara rift is formed
Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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
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
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
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
Page Number: 08
Extract Date: -200M
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Extract ID: 829
supercontinent of 'Pangaea' starts splitting to form the continents