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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
For a long time, A. afarensis was the oldest known African great ape until the 1994 description of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus, [14] and a few earlier or contemporary taxa have been described since, including the 4-million-year-old A. anamensis in 1995, [15] the 3.5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops in 2001, [16] the 6 ...
(The name 'Lucy' was inspired by the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... The first find there was a fossil knee joint estimated to date from 3.4 million years ago.
Australopithecus fossils become more widely dispersed throughout eastern and southern Africa (the Chadian A. bahrelghazali indicates that the genus was much more widespread than the fossil record suggests), before eventually becoming pseudo-extinct 1.9 million years ago (or 1.2 to 0.6 million years ago if Paranthropus is included).
1.1 13,800 million years ago to 5,500 million years ago. ... Lucy, member of the ... Jin dynasty ended by Liu Yu of Song.
The specimen was nicknamed "Lucy" after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", ... Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 ...
Also in 1997, the near-complete Australopithecus skeleton of "Little Foot", then dated to approximately 3.3 million years ago (more recent dating suggests it is closer to 2.5 million years ago), was discovered by Ron Clarke. In 2001, Steve Churchill of Duke University and Lee Berger found early modern human remains at Plovers Lake.
The Little Foot specimen dating made in 2015, estimates it to 3.67 million years old by means of a new radioisotopic technique. [2] [27] Results in 2014 estimated the specimen to be around 3.3 million years old. Earlier attempts date it 2.2 million years, [25] or between 3.03 and 2.04 million years. [28]