![]() ![]() Taieb formed the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE) and invited three prominent international scientists to conduct research expeditions into the region. The original fossils were returned to Ethiopia in 2013, and subsequent exhibitions have used casts.įrench geologist and paleoanthropologist Maurice Taieb discovered the Hadar Formation for paleoanthropology in 1970 in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, then in Hararghe province he recognized its potential as a likely repository of the fossils and artifacts of human origins. There was discussion of the risks of damage to the unique fossils, and other museums preferred to display casts of the fossil assembly. Beginning in 2007, the fossil assembly and associated artefacts were exhibited publicly in an extended six-year tour of the United States the exhibition was called Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia. Lucy became famous worldwide, and the story of her discovery and reconstruction was published in a book by Johanson and Edey. After public announcement of the discovery, Lucy captured much international interest, becoming a household name at the time. "Lucy" acquired her name from the 1967 song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp all evening after the excavation team's first day of work on the recovery site. A 2016 study proposes that Australopithecus afarensis was also to a large extent tree-dwelling, though the extent of this is debated. The skeleton presents a small skull akin to that of non-hominin apes, plus evidence of a walking-gait that was bipedal and upright, akin to that of humans (and other hominins) this combination supports the view of human evolution that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size. The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkinesh (ድንቅ ነሽ, which means "you are marvellous" in Amharic), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
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