Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool
A History of the World in 100 Objects
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A chipped stone from africa is where it all begins, a history of the world in a hundred objects. Chopping tool made one point eight million years ago, found in old juvi gorge, tansinia, east africa. Archaeologist called lewis leke set off on a british museum sponsiv expedition bound for africa. Leke's goal was olduva gorge, a deep crack in the flat savanna of northern tanzinea,. It's part of the east african rift valley, a massive tear in the earth's surface thousands of miles long.
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