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In Focus: Special Report: Lucy's Baby
URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=special-report-lucys-baby

Description:
September 2006 feature about the discovery in Ethiopia's Afar region of a skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis child who lived 3.3 million years ago. Features background about the skeleton (found in the same area as area as "Lucy," another A. afarensis skeleton), an interactive graphic of this human ancestor, a photo gallery, and a podcast of an interview with the Lucy discoverer. From the website for Scientific American magazine.

LII Topics: Archaeology, Excavations, Fossils, Geology, Paleontology, Prehistoric People

Author:
Wong, Kate

Publisher:
Scientific American, Inc.

LII Database Information:
Record 22656 created by Jennifer English on 09/25/2006
Last modification on 10/05/2009
Published: 09/28/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22656

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