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Where did Mary Leakey find tools that were two million years old?

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Her work Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-63 (1971, Vol. III of Olduvai Gorge, 1951-1961, 6 vol., 1965-94) contains a detailed analysis of the thousands of 2-million-year-old stone tools from that site.

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