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A reconstruction of the famous hominin Lucy Frank Nowikowski/Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month . One hundred years ago, on 28 November 1924, anthropologist Raymond Dart opened a crate.
It held a consignment of fossils from Taung, a quarry in South Africa, including a small skull that looked part-ape, part-human. Dart named it “ Australopithecus africanus : The Man-Ape of South Africa ”. It was the first Australopithecus specimen to be identified, and the first evidence that early humans evolved in.
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