Side view of cast of Lucy in the Naturmuseum Senckenberg First find
An expedition was soon mounted with four American and seven French participants in the autumn of 1973 the team began surveying sites around Hadar for signs related to the origin of humans. These were: Donald Johanson, an American paleoanthropologist and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, who later founded the Institute of Human Origins, now part of Arizona State University Mary Leakey, the noted British paleoanthropologist and Yves Coppens, a French paleoanthropologist now based at the Collège de France which is considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. Taieb formed the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE) and invited three prominent international scientists to conduct research expeditions into the region. The original fossils were returned to Ethiopia in 2013, and subsequent exhibitions have used casts.įrench geologist and paleoanthropologist Maurice Taieb discovered the Hadar Formation for paleoanthropology in 1970 in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia in Hararghe region he recognized its potential as a likely repository of the fossils and artifacts of human origins. There was discussion of the risks of damage to the unique fossils, and other museums preferred to display casts of the fossil assembly. Beginning in 2007, the fossil assembly and associated artifacts were exhibited publicly in an extended six-year tour of the United States the exhibition was called Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia. Lucy became famous worldwide, and the story of her discovery and reconstruction was published in a book by Johanson. After public announcement of the discovery, Lucy captured much public interest, becoming a household name at the time. "Lucy" acquired her name from the 1967 song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp all evening after the excavation team's first day of work on the recovery site. A 2016 study proposes that Australopithecus afarensis was also to a large extent tree-dwelling, though the extent of this is debated.
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The skeleton presents a small skull akin to that of non-hominin apes, plus evidence of a walking-gait that was bipedal and upright, akin to that of humans (and other hominins) this combination supports the view of human evolution that bipedalism preceded increase in brain size. The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in Amharic.
AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
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