It had been unearthed in a limestone quarry near the village of Taung, South Africa, and was still partly encased in rock ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old.

The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...

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In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously ... the discovery of more australopithecine fossils in South Africa before scientists began to accept his ...

South Africa. John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says Australopithecus, and the Taung skull specifically, combined three things in a way that no scienti ...

It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery ... racism and racial segregation and apartheid in South Africa. The history of human origins research is, therefore, intertwined ...