For this story (Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge) Mike Resnick was awarded the 1995 Hugo Award - a literary award in the field of science fiction, established in 1953... The disappeared human civilization was remembered for a long time throughout the Galaxy... Many centuries have already passed, there is not a single living Homo Sapiens left, but the Universe remembers how bipedal creatures, having barely mastered space flight, began to conquer everything and everyone on their fragile ships. A scientific expedition that included races so different from each other that the participants themselves shunned each other friend, goes to Earth in the Olduvai region, Tanzania. According to legend, it was in this area that the first intelligent life on the planet originated millions of years ago. Each member of the expedition has special skills that make him an indispensable specialist in archaeological research. The shuttle delivers scientists to the planet and flies into orbit to return for them after some time. The group remains among the wild nature in full confidence that nothing threatens them: after all, man has long disappeared as a species...