In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

In 1925, Raymond Dart found the Taung skull, a fossil in South Africa that he believed was the earliest human ancestor (now known as Australopithecus). But few people accepted his find ...

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

In them, he discovered the skull of what would become known as the “Taung Child.” Though the fossil exhibited apelike features, the position of the foramen magnum, or the opening that allows ...

that a famous and controversial two-million-year-old hominid fossil skull from a South Africa limestone quarry, known as the Taung child, belonged to one of mankind’s distant ancestors.

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...

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 ...