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7:30 pm

A deep exploration into the exquisite culture of the peoples of East Africa. Oldoinyo Lengai, an active volcano in the Great African Rift, is the sacred mountain of the Maasai and overlooks the most important ancestral grounds of our ancestors. Jim will explore primitive African peoples still carrying out their ways of life in today’s world of technology and strife. He will take you to some of the most beautiful parts of our planet far removed from the normal tourist venues.

In March of last year Jim happened upon a new set of Hominid trackways in the shadow of Lengai. This led to the realization through Argon/Argon dating that what he found were tracks 125,000 years old, thus pointing to some of the oldest footprints of our species – Homo sapiens – on the planet. In July, he will return to the mountain of God joining geologists and paleoanthropologists to investigate and think about the route our kind walked north out of Africa to inhabit the world.

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