Serengeti Human Footprints

The human history of the Serengeti is largely the history of the African people, from the hunter-gatherers of the distant past who roamed the vast plains, to those today who preserve it as a prime destination for visitors.

Apart from Olduvai Gorge, which is formally part of the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area but an extension of the Serengeti and part of its ecosystem, the area's history has been virtually ignored. Continue bellow...

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Tsetse flies in the woodlands, and with them sleeping sickness, ensured that the Serengeti was spared the type of European encroachment, and with it the decimation of the wildlife that other African countries were subjected to.

The Leakeys' famous excavations at Olduvai Gorge show that our forebears lived and hunted in the area for some two million years before the German and then the British colonisers arrived.
Man has always been part of the Serengeti and many people, tribes and remarkable individuals have left their footprints on its endless plains.