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It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
How old is Lucy? The hominin-bearing sediments in the Hadar formation are divided into three members. Lucy was found in the highest of these—the Kada Hadar or KH—member.
4 kwi 2024 · For the first 20 years after Lucy’s discovery, her species was the oldest known member of the human family. A. afarensis was “the only game in town” between 3 million and 4 million years ago, says Carol Ward, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Missouri.
15 paź 2024 · When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton.
20 wrz 2006 · No. The remarkably complete "Lucy's baby" skeleton, announced on September 20, 2006, is about a hundred thousand years older than Lucy herself. The A. afarensis child was so nicknamed...
27 cze 2024 · Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of her discovery. Two features set humans apart from all other primates: big...
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early hominins thanks to an extraordinary skeleton known as Lucy. Find out what we've learned about this species and important fossils. How do we know that Lucy and her species walked upright? How do we know Lucy was female? How did she die?
