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GSA TODAY, February 2000 Gorge, Tanzania, provides a successful example of a recon-structed paleolandscape that is rich in detail and adds a smallstruction required multidisciplinary interaction of sedimen-nologists. Geology plays an increasingly important role inhominid land use are answered by geology, and these answers PALEOANTHROPOLOGY PROJECT Fundamental questions being askedSubdisciplineWhat was the paleolandscape like?Geomorphology, sedimentology, clay mineralogyWhat are the age and duration of the time slice?Geochronology, volcanology, paleontologyDid they vary through time?Paleobotany, geochemistry, soil scienceWhat were the fauna like?Paleontology, archaeology, paleoanthropology Were hominids present?Paleontology, archaeology, paleoanthropology ciplinary approaches and integrative science are absolutely criti-been noticed by geologists or archaeologists or anthropologistsabout 25 scientists from Tanzania, the United States, Southof support staff from Tanzania. Principal investigators areRobertJ. Blumenschine (Rutgers University) and Fidelis T.the unpublished data that he shared with me. Research wassponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Archaeol-chaeol-Rutgers University, 140 p.Hay, R. L., 1976, Geology of the Olduvai Gorge; a study of sedimentation in a semi-arid basin: Berkeley, University of California Press, 203 p.Hay, R. L., 1990, Olduvai Gorge; a case history in the interpretation of hominidpaleoenvironments in East Africa, inLaporte, L. F., ed., Establishment of a geologicframework for paleoanthropology: Geological Society of America Special Paper 242,p. 23Ð37.Leakey, M. D., 1971, Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds I and II; 1960Ð1963: Cam-bridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 309 p. Peters, C. R., and Blumenschine, R. J., 1995, Landscape perspectives on possibleland use patterns for Early Pleistocene hominids in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania:Journal of Human Evolution, v. 29, p. 321Ð362.Wood, B., 1994, The oldest Hominid yet: Nature, v. 371, p.280Ð281. Left: Tufa. Fenestralsent sedimentary record of lake GSA TODAY, February 2000 Time slice of Lowermost Bed II is 20 km wide and 6 m high. Sedi-mentary facies analysis reveals a volcaniclastic fan building from east into 261081214161820LEMUTA MEMBERFANWET-WET-WATERWATERTuffWetlands ?? FAN Identified Bones 02468101214161820 25 BONE & ARTIFACT DENSITY by DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTWetlands Preliminary results of density of identified bone and artifacts as a