Oldupai Gorge

The Oldupai Gorge is a 30 mile long, steep-sided ravine, part of the Great Rift Valley which stretches along eastern Africa. Oldupai is in the eastern Serengeti Plains, northern Tanzania, east Africa. This is the preferred local spelling, though it is still often referred to as Olduvai. The gorge is named after the Maasai word for the wild sisal plant, Sansevieria ehrenbergiana, commonly called Oldupai.

The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge

The paper, with the same title as this section, by Richard C. Duncan claims that "Olduvai" is "a good metaphor for the 'Stone Age way of life'". See Wikipedia's article on this paper or the paper itself.

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Richard C. Duncan - Wikipedia's article on this paper

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