Australopithecus prometheus: is it real?
Lee Berger and I have a new article out in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that looks at what may be the biggest issue in hominin taxonomy for ...
All posts tagged with Raymond Dart
Link: Embargo-breakers from the dawn of paleoanthropology
From Paige Madison, a historical note on the public revelation of Raymond Dart’s examination of the first australopith: “Announcing the Taung Child to the Wo...
Raymond Dart and the Russian cast connection
I pointed earlier this week to an article by Lydia Pyne about perceptions of Neandertals over the years, and hinted at a second recent article. That article ...
Quote: Popular Science on Taung (1924)
A reader passes along a link to the Popular Science archive, now available free.
More on Gertrude Caton Thompson
After my post on Gertrude Caton Thompson’s permit problems, a reader referred me to Caton Thompson’s memoirs (Mixed Memoirs, 1983, and sadly out of print.) A...