It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a reference to the discovery site and its young age. The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa …

The iconic Taung fossilised skull is widely known for its primacy as Africa’s first palaeoanthropological discovery with universal scientific relevance. Yet the details surrounding …

We conclude that the Taung 'child' shows some important dental maturational affinities with great apes, although as Dare noted, other hominid-like features are clearly present.

The present paper attemptsto reconsider the case of the Taung australopithecine.The results are equally far from conclusive, but they may help clarifya number of pointsand suggestavenues …

The age of Taung, and of other early southern African hominins, remains poorly constrained, and this contribution has summarised just a subset of the numerous attempts to resolve this issue.

The Taung Child is possibly the most famous and most significant find in palaeoanthropology in the 20th century. The fossilised partial skull was found in 1924 by quarrymen working for the …

Direct evidence of eagle-type damage on the Taung hominin was recognized in 2006 in the form of gouges and punctures in the orbits of the fossil13 (Fig. 1).