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  2. Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Lucy at 50: How the world’s most famous fossil was discovered

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    Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.

  4. Donald Johanson - Wikipedia

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    Lucy was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia on November 24, 1974, when Johanson, coaxed away from his paperwork by graduate student Tom Gray for a spur-of-the-moment survey, caught the glint of a white fossilized bone out of the corner of his eye and recognized it as hominin.

  5. Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia

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    On 24 November 1974, Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray discovered the extremely well-preserved skeleton AL 288–1, commonly referred to as "Lucy" (named after the 1967 Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds which was playing on their tape recorder that evening). [4]

  6. Hadar, Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Lucy", a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Hadar The anthropologist Donald Johanson , a member of the 1973 expedition to Hadar, returned the next year and discovered the fossil hominin " Lucy " in the late fall of 1974. [ 6 ]

  7. AL 129-1 - Wikipedia

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    The team returned for the second field season in the following year and found hominid jaws. Then, on the morning of November 24, 1974, Johanson and Gray were searching in a gully about two and a half kilometres from the site where the knee joint had been discovered, where Johanson found the first fossil fragment of Lucy (Australopithecus). [3]

  8. 1974 in archaeology - Wikipedia

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    24 November: 'Lucy', the skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, discovered at Hadar, Ethiopia, in the Afar Depression. [3] Roman villa "B" at Oplontis in Italy discovered. East Han Dynasty statue of Li Bing discovered at Dujiangyan Irrigation System.

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