All,
Not much to say about the following, except to note that human behaviour is alive and well at Olduvai.
Dalton, Rex. 2007. War of words erupts over fossil dig. Nature. 448:12.
The Olduvai Gorge, perhaps the most famous location in palaeoanthropology, has become a battleground for two research groups. Last week the rivals met to resolve their differences,but tensions remain high.
It all has to do with a territorial conflict between the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project (OLAPP) — led by anthropologist Robert Blumenschine of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, archaeologist Fidelis Masao of the University of Dar es Salaam and Jackson Njau, principal curator at Tanzania’s National Natural History Museum in Arusha and, apparently, intruders led by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, of Complutense University in Madrid, and Audauz Mabulla, of the University of Dar es Salaam
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Jacques
