100 Years of Taung Child: Colonialism, Human Origins, Science, Africa, Heritage

Unearthing Shadows: The Taung Child’s Century-Long Journey Through Science and Colonialism

In the summer of 1924, a blast of dynamite cracked open a limestone quarry. This event occurred in the dusty hills of South Africa’s North West province. Amid the rubble, a miner’s pickaxe struck an unassumin...

100 Years of Taung Child: Colonialism, Human Origins, Science, Africa, Heritage

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