Lucy's Baby
UCF Spring 2007
While on an expedition to the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia in 2000 paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged was surveying a site called Dikika with his team. While surveying, team member Tilahun Gebreselassie was the first to see the most incredible find, the remains of a juvenile Australopithecus afarensis. Over four more seasons of searching and sifting, the team has unearthed a near-complete skeleton, piece by piece. Remarkably this discovery was found only six miles from the discovery of the most famous fossil Australopithecus afarensis find by a team which was led by paleoanthropologist Donald Johnson in 1974.
That fossil find was determined to be a female in her mid twenties. It was named Lucy and it was dated 3.2 mya. Even though she was missing her skull, Lucy was the most complete fossil ever found and her bones indicated that she walked upright. Johnson and his team also found a complete knee joint, minus the knee cap, labeled AL 129-1......
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