It was the first evidence that confirmed British ... geological ages of the Australopithecus fossils found at Sterkfontein as well as those from Taung and a third site, Makapansgat.

Tawane is a paleoanthropologist and grew up in the Taung municipality. She and her co-authors argue that, a century after the discovery of the fossil, there is little (if any) reason for the local ...

It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa ... It was the first evidence that humanity originated in Africa. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we ...

Nicknamed the Taung Child after the nearby village, the fossil had numerous traits suggesting it was a human ancestor. Dart noted that the forehead “rises steadily” from the eye orbits in a ...

Previous evidence for human ancestry made use of fossils that bore a closer resemblance ... In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal ...

By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish ... estimation methods — launched the modern era of fossil hominid studies. The Taung skull turned researchers’ attention away from ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ... named after the “Taung child” whose skull was discovered 100 years ago by workmen in the South African ...

But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils. From the "Taung Child" to "the Hobbit ... Tolkien's "The Hobbit," Thorin has provided evidence that Neanderthals died out because they ...

Tawane is a palaeoanthropologist and grew up in the Taung municipality. She and her co-authors argue that, a century after the discovery of the fossil, there is little (if any) reason for the ...

Lucy the "paleo-rock star" took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking ... named after the "Taung child" whose skull was discovered 100 years ago by workmen in the South African limestone ...

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South ...