Cranium Command Cranium Command Cranium Command was an attraction at the Wonders of Life pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot theme park. The show was a humorous presentation on the importance of the human brain. The show's script was written by Jenny Tripp, a staff writer in Disney Feature Animation, and directed by Jerry Rees, who in addition to many other Disney film-based attractions, directed "The Brave Little Toaster". The pre-show itself was the first directing effort of Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, famous for later directing "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It premiered on October
Ndutu cranium Ndutu cranium The Ndutu skull is the partial cranium of a Middle Pleistocene hominin found at Lake Ndutu in northern Tanzania. Lake Ndutu is a seasonal soda lake in the Serengeti, adjacent to Lake Masek and the Main Gorge at Olduvai. During September and October 1973, A. A. Mturi and the Tanzanian Department of Antiquities conducted an excavation of the exposed flats of the western shoreline of Lake Ndutu. The excavation site was approximately in area and had considerable amounts of lithic and faunal material on the surface; the Ndutu cranium was found on the first occupational floor of the