East African Archaeological Expedition (Olduvai, Tanzania)

October - December 1931

Members of the Expedition

• Dr Louis Leakey (Leader / Archaeologist)
• Professor Hans Reck (Geologist)
• Dr U.T. Hopwood (Mammalian palaeontologist, British Museum)
• Vivian Fuchs (Geologist)
• J.R.H. Hewlett (Game Warden of Kenya, and Engineer)

Mission

To re-examine Professor Reck's 1931 discovery of a human skeleton found with important fossils of extinct species and to find stone-age tools at the site of the discovery; correlate the Olduvai fossils with the Kenyan series; collect new species of fossils for the British Museum.