The beginning of the evolutionary discovery in Africa.
In 1911 Professor Wilhelm Kattwinkel, on a medical expedition in the then German East Africa explored the slopes of a ravine in the middle of nowhere.
He collected some ancient fossils and took them back on his return to Germany.
They belonged to a three-toed horse.
The excitement at this discovery led to a dedicated expedition being organised by the Universities of Berlin and Munich, with the Kaisers support, specifically to this tear in the earth on the fringes of the Serengeti plains west of Ngorongoro crater.
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Hans Reck was to lead the expedition which found it difficult to find the gorge recorded by Prof. Kattwinkel as Oldoway.
After 3 days searching in the target area they discovered where they had set up camp was in fact the place they were looking for.
Reck proceeded to perform a complete geological survey of the area in the following three months and collected over 1700 fossils.
Nearing the end of the expedition a human skeleton was unearthed surrounded by Pleistocene animal bones. If it was the same age as the animals that surrounded it then it was the oldest human remains yet to be found.
So, they found tons of fossils and the oldest corpse ever?
I am always fascinated with findings as regards evolution. I wished I could join such expedition. Thank you for sharing.
It's pretty neat what fossils can tell us in these days. Imagine the excitement of finding the oldest known human remains. The discovery of new things never stops.
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great inforamtion about geological survey you have shared @gavvet, Serengeti is a geographical region in Africa,The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, which helps secure it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa,and africa always surprised everyone.Reck had really done very wonderful discovery "oldoway man" upvoted and resteemed.Thank you.
You know one time the Serengeti plains stretched all the way to what is now known as the Sahara desert. It crazy how climate change can really change the face of the earth. O once thought of building a pipeline into the desert and letting the sand filter the salt from the water. Until i learned you need energy to remove dissovled materials from water. But nonetheless a Megaproject spanning sahara and sahel nations would put a nice % of unemployed africans to work and generate billions in just land sales after its completion not to mention the money to be made from the crops that would be able to be grown. one can dream :)
wow learning something new
Very nice geological report you maintion , which help to improve our knoledge.
Oh yes, it was a famous expedition and when the first results in the Olduvai Gorge caused a sensation when the German neurologist and paleontologist Professor Wilhelm Katvinckel in 1911 became the first Europeans to enter the gorge after encountering the remains of the long-extinct three horse hurricane (Hipparion). In 1913 the Berlin researcher Hans Rekk followed him and found the first fossil hominin, about 20,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull. Thank you @gavvet
Forget out of Africa! Fossils reveal human farmers migrated BACK to the continent from Europe 3,000 years ago to populate it
The first modern humans are thought to have left Africa and began spreading around the world up to 100,000 years ago, but it seems some of our ancestors later decided to return to the continent.
A new study has revealed evidence of a reverse migration by Stone Age farmers from Europe to Africa which can still be seen today in the genomes of people from Africa.
Two teeth from a 35,000 year old woman discovered in Romania have provided evidence that a population of humans travelled back to Africa around 3,000 years ago.
A genetic study has provided evidence that a population of modern humans migrated from Europe to Africa around 3,000 years ago. The research found genetically material from a 35,000 year old female skull found in the Pestera Muierii cave in Romania matched genes found in modern African populations today
I would love to read about this research you are tAlking about, it will be a great eye opener
It seems fishy to me i will have to do some research on the topic. imvery skeptical but anything is possible and people are mysterious at times.
Great post, very interesting reading, thanks