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Posted: 10 May 2020

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The Olduvai lakeshore 1.8 million years ago, as re-created by artist Jay Matternes. A family of extinct elephant ‘elephas recki’ wallows in the shallows. Protected from predators by the close proximity of the elephants, a group of ‘Homo habilis’ searches for food, digging for tubers and roots in the ground cover. At center, one of the hominid fashions a crude Oldown tool while a juvenile watches and learns.

The frothy edge of the alkaline lake is bordered with elephant grass and acacia trees. In the right foreground, the ropy, sinuous mound is a dome of solidified lava which flowed upward through the crack in the overlying rock layers and cooled upon reaching the surface. It makes a good promonotory for pelicans and cormorants. An African fish eagle perches in the drowned snag of acacia, while a small flock of flamingos passes overhead. In the background, the volcano Lemagrut rises over all, five thousand feet higher than it is today
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