Here’s how the story of the Taung Child is usually told ... He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description ...

So he turned his attention to the location of the skull’s discovery ... Nicknamed the Taung Child after the nearby village, the fossil had numerous traits suggesting it was a human ancestor.

South Africa’s application to have the world heritage status of Sterkfontein’s fossil ... Taung Skull is regarded as evidence of the ‘missing link’ in hominid evolution and the location ...

Here are 10 such fossils (presented ... Workers at a quarry in Taung, South Africa, uncovered a remarkable skull in 1924, during an era when the location for the origin of modern humans was ...

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the place where in 1924 the celebrated Taung Skull – a specimen of the species Australopithecus africanus – was ...

Consider the Taung Child, a 3-year-old’s fossil skull uncovered by miners at South Africa’s Taung quarry in 1924. Researchers generally agree that the discovery of the Taung Child — which ...

On December 23, 1924, the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart chipped away the last bit of rock encasing the skull ... of fossil scraps sent to him from a limestone quarry in Taung, South Africa ...

The skull of ... nicknamed the Taung Child revolutionised our view of human origins. It suggested humans evolved in Africa, not Eurasia as previously thought. No other hominin fossils have ...

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told ... He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what ...