Rebecca Ackermann

Feb 10, 2025 | allafrica.com | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told:In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.

Feb 8, 2025 | phys.org | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material.

Feb 7, 2025 | modernghana.com | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.

Feb 7, 2025 | theconversation.com | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.

Feb 7, 2025 | sajs.co.za | Rebecca Ackermann |Cape Town |Keneiloe Molopyane

Abstract The concepts of explorer, expedition, and the combination of the two into the myth of the explorer have been integral parts of Western mentality for more than 200 years. Here we briefly outline the colonial origins of these ideas, and use this crystallised understanding of the explorer myth to consider how African palaeoanthropology in the 20th century and up to the present continues to carry many of these biased, outdated overtones – some more overtly than others.