|
OLD 62/068/6643 FLK I opp. Zinj site |
8131 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
HUM-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
Opposite Zinj. site. |
-- |
Distal 1/3 of humerus. Articular surfaces not preserved. Pleistocene. |
|
2012/07/27 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
068/6641 FLK I OPP. ZINJ |
8200 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
R-HUM |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
Opposite Zinj. |
-- |
Distal end of right humerus. Pleistocene. Card in bag with specimen states "Olduvai". |
|
2012/08/02 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD G/13 Simopith? |
8203 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
R-FEM-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
G/13? |
-- |
Long bone shaft fragment (right femur shaft?) Card in bag with specimen states "LSB Leakey `60 Field NO: 067/3684 FLK I OLD 1960 G/13 Pleistocene". |
|
2012/08/02 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OH 16 |
3731 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
283 - 45 |
CRA-f
, TOOTH
, MAN
, |
1963 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
base |
+ Tuff IF (see curatorial notes for details) |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Upper and lower dentition, calotte, and > 1500 unidentified fragments due to cattle trampling. Majority of fragments found on surface of Tuff IF, some teeth found in situ, 2 feet above Tuff IF. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
154 - Leakey and Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
habilis |
|
Leakey LSB, 1964 refers to this specimen as Homo erectus. Leakey, Tobias, and Napier provisionally assign it to Homo habilis (referred material, not paratype) (1964), and Leakey MD, 1971 refers to it as cf. Australopithecus. |
Yes |
|
OH 17 |
3732 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
d-M |
1963 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
Surface |
Stream bed of Maiko Gully |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
habilis |
|
|
No |
|
OH 54 |
3769 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
M-f |
1969 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
Surface. |
-- |
Half of lower M1 or M2. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OH 74 |
3789 |
72 - FLK Maiko Gully |
|
L-M |
2007 |
127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania |
I |
ID above |
Surface. |
|
Left M2, unerupted.Specimen is pictured second from the bottom left in image 1.Specimen is shown on right in image 2. |
|
|
|
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
Australopithecus |
boisei |
|
|
No |
|
OH 22 |
3737 |
73 - VEK/MNK |
|
R-MAN-f
, R-P
, R-M
, R-I-f
, R-C-f |
1968 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III/IV |
|
Surface, indeterminate gravel |
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Right half of mandible with roots of I1-C and complete P3-M2. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
cf. erectus |
|
|
No |
|
OH 24 |
3739 |
74 - DK E |
|
CRA
, M
, P |
1968 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
Surface |
Tobias, PV. 1991. The Skulls, endocasts and teeth of Homo habilis. Cambridge: University Press. |
Cranium is crushed. Teeth not specified. From same horizon as OH 4. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
habilis |
|
|
No |
|
OH 29 |
3744 |
76 - JK W |
|
M-f |
1969 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III/IVa |
|
|
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OH 34 |
3749 |
76 - JK W |
|
FEM
, TIB-f |
1962 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
III/ IV |
for Bed IV level = a |
|
Leakey MD. (1971) Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 3: excavations in Beds I & II 1960-1963. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Femur described as "slender" (Leakey MD, 1971) and shaft of tibia. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
sp. |
|
Slender bone |
No |
|
OH 40 |
3755 |
78 - FLK S |
|
d-M |
1972 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
Middle or Lower? |
Surface. |
Leakey, M.D. 1978. Olduvai fossil hominids:their stratigraphic positions and associations. In: Jolly, CJ, editor. Early hominids of Africa. London:Duckworth. P. 3-16. |
Upper M2, broken. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
142 - M. D. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
OH 55 |
3770 |
78 - FLK S |
|
M-f |
1976 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
Surface. |
-- |
Weathered crown of molar. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
No |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
habilis |
|
|
No |
|
M 103944 |
12739 |
78 - FLK S |
|
R-M (3), L-M |
1935 |
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
II |
|
|
-- |
OLD-588; right upper M1, M2, and M3 and left M2; "OLD Y FLK II S 3/VII/35" |
|
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Bovinae |
Tragelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
|
067/5478 MK I |
8140 |
8 - MK |
|
HUM-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
|
-- |
Shaft fragment of distal end of right humerus. Pleistocene. Card in bag states "Loc: Olduvai, L.S.B Leakey 67, MK I surface OLD 60". |
|
2012/07/30 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OH 4 |
3720 |
8 - MK |
281 - 11 |
P
, M
, MAN |
1959 |
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
Lower |
Surface. |
Leakey, L.S.B., Tobias, P.V. & Napier, J.R. 1964. A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge. Nature 202(4927): 7-9. |
Paratype. Two isolated teeth (lower molar and upper premolar) and one M3 in a mandible. Found in small block of consolidated tuff. Specimen previously housed at National Museum of Kenya. |
282 - H. Mukiri |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
Homininae |
Hominini |
Homo |
habilis |
|
Paratype |
No |
|
24/1959 |
56 |
8 - MK |
|
M |
1959 |
105 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (?) |
I |
lower |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Original information indicated that this specimen was located in Nairobi. This specimen is likely within the material that was repatriated to Dar in 2011, but this has yet to be confirmed. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Carnivora |
Caniformia |
Arctoidea |
|
Mustelidae |
Lutrinae |
|
Lutra |
sp. |
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Elephas 2 |
91 |
8 - MK |
|
MAN, C, M, I, P |
|
104 - Unknown |
I |
lower |
|
Leakey LSB. 1965. Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Volume 1: Fauna and Background. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
Several other specimens found at this site in Bed I but probably fell from Bed II. |
130 - L.S.B. Leakey |
|
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
Specimen was "embedded in matrix." |
Mammalia |
Proboscidea |
Tethytheria |
Behemota |
Elephantoidea |
Elephantidae |
|
|
Elephas |
africanavus |
|
|
No |
|
OH 70 |
3785 |
80 - MCK |
|
L-M-f |
2002 |
127 - National Natural History Museum, Arusha, Tanzania |
II |
Lower |
|
|
Distrobuccal portion of upper M1 crown.Specimen is pictured on bottom right of image 1. |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Hominoidea |
Hominidae |
|
|
Australopithecus |
africanus |
|
OH 24-like |
No |
|
OLD 1962 067/5608 MCK II Simo. Lt.Max |
8167 |
80 - MCK |
|
L-MAX, P-f, M |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
-- |
Left maxilla with fourth premolar (roots) and first molar to third molar. |
|
2012/07/31 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
Simopithecus |
|
|
|
No |
|
MCK I or II? |
8174 |
80 - MCK |
|
CUBNAV, PHX, MTT-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I or II? |
|
|
-- |
Fragments and complete foot bones (left),including navicular, pedal phalanges (proximal and intermediate), tarsals, including proximal half of third and fifth metatarsal. Only navicular is labeled (label is MCK I or II?). Bones may go with cards found in pile; may go with cards 067/5614, 5617-20, in which case the specimens would be Simopithecus oswaldi type specimens. |
|
2012/07/31 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
MCK I? Simo |
8175 |
80 - MCK |
|
CUBNAV, PHX, MTT-f, CUNE |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
|
-- |
Fragments of right foot bones including navicular, cuneiform, intermediate pedal phalanges and proximal half of fifth metatarsal. If specimen labeled (on navicular) is "MCK II"(as opposed to MCK I), specimen may belong with cards found in stack 067/5614, 0617-20 and if so this is a Simopithecus oswaldi type specimen. |
|
2012/07/31 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
Simopithecus |
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD/62 068/6130 MCK II.S |
8295 |
80 - MCK |
|
FEM-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
Surface? |
-- |
Proximal end of femur shaft. Pleistocene. |
|
2012/08/13 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD-1581 |
13167 |
80 - MCK |
|
MTP-f |
|
114 - Natural History Museum UK |
I |
S |
|
-- |
OLD-1581; distal MTP-f |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
Alcelaphinae |
Alcelaphini |
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-Mammalia |
3801 |
83 - FLK NW |
|
AST, (n=33), CAL, (n=73), FEM, (n=272), HUM, (n=186), I, (n=316), M, (n=108), MAN, (n=161), MAX, (n=68), MTP, (n=257), PHX, (n=77), PVG, (n=218), RAD, (n=55), SCP, (n=40), TIB, (n=395), ULNA, (n=76), VER, (n=595) |
|
|
I |
20 |
|
Arcos, S., Sevilla, P., and Fernandez-Jalvo, Y. 2010. Preliminary small mammal taphonomy of FLK NW level 20 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Quarternary Research 74:405-410. |
MNI is 198. Authors describe specimens as "small mammals". |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Authors describe specimens as "small mammals". |
No |
|
OVPP-Panthera 4 |
3956 |
84 - Dalmatian K |
|
FEM-f |
|
|
IV |
|
|
Petter, G. 1973. Carnivores Pleistocenes du ravin d’Olduvai (Tanzanie). Fossil vertebrates of Africa 3:43-100. |
Distal end of femur. |
157 - L. Hlusko |
2012/6/28 |
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
Ruminantia |
|
Bovoidea |
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
F80 SLK II |
8051 |
85 - SLK |
|
R-MAN-f, R-M-f |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
II |
|
|
Leakey and Whitworth, 1958. ? Mem. Mus. Occ. pap. No. 6. |
Packed in National Museum in Nairobi, Kenya in box 188 or 189 labeled "Cercopithecidae" for transport to National Museum of History, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Enclosed card reads "Spec: Right mandibular corpus with very worn & broken M3 and posterior part of M2. Referred to S. jonathani by Leakey & Whitworth 1958. In BM loan collection. See Leakey & Whitworth." |
|
2012/7/20 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OVPP-L-1647 |
10510 |
86 - HK |
|
10 bone fragments of various species |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
1 Giraffidae molar, 3 fish spines, & other indeterminate fragments |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1649 |
10512 |
86 - HK |
|
2 Horn core fragments |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1650 |
10513 |
86 - HK |
|
Distal femur |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1651 |
10514 |
86 - HK |
|
2 Indeterminate bone fragments |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1652 |
10515 |
86 - HK |
|
Distal humerus |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Artiodactyla |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1653 |
10516 |
86 - HK |
|
Indeterminate bone fragment |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1654 |
10517 |
86 - HK |
|
Proximal ulna |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bovidae |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1656 |
10519 |
86 - HK |
|
Indeterminate bone fragment |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1657 |
10520 |
86 - HK |
|
Miscellaneous fragments of ostrich eggshells and fish |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OVPP-L-1658 |
10521 |
86 - HK |
|
9 Elements: horn core fragment, distal femur, and distal metapodial |
|
126 - Mary Leakey Camp, Antiquities Station Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
|
|
|
|
Various taxonomy includes Aves, Bovidae, Leporidae, + others |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
OLD 61/2956 DK W S SCREE T.T. |
8124 |
87 - DK W |
|
M |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
I |
|
T.T. Scree. Surface. |
-- |
Lower molar probably right M2. Card in bag states "OLD61 DK I T.T. scree Cynocephalinae." |
|
2012/07/27 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
Cercopithecidae |
Cynocephalinae |
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
OLD53 SHK? |
8155 |
88 - SHK (?) |
|
M |
|
122 - National Museum and House of Culture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
|
|
|
-- |
Molar. (Deciduous?) Card in bag states "Field no: OLD/153 7WR4". |
|
2012/07/30 |
264 - Leakey family expedition |
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Primates |
Anthropoidea |
Haplorhini |
Cercopithecoidea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No |
|
M18786 |
3877 |
9 - THC |
|
MTC |
|
|
I |
|
|
|
All specimens for this paper are thought to be from one individual (MNI = 1). Each specimen has its own specimen number. This is the second metacarpal. |
|
|
|
Unknown |
|
Mammalia |
Perissodactyla |
Ceratomorpha |
Selenida |
Chalicotherioidea |
Chalicotheriidae |
Schizotheriinae |
Schizotheriini |
Ancylotherium |
hennigi |
|
|
No |