Definition: Australian paleontologist Raymond Dart was working at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa when he first investigated the fossil hominid known as the "Taung baby" and identified it as a likely human ancestor which he named Australopithecus africanus. He was trained at the University of Queensland and then, after a stint in World War I under Grafton Elliot Smith at the University of Manchester.
For more information, Talk Origins has a substantive biography of Dart.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
For more information, Talk Origins has a substantive biography of Dart.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
