abstract:The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus individual. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa.
That's when the firstskullof a humanancestor was unearthedinAfrica: the Taungchild, nowrecognizedasamember of Australopithecus africanus, which lived about 3 million to 2 million years ago.
"Lucy", "The Black Skull, " "Twiggy" and "The TaungChild" respectively prove there were walking beings similar to humans in Africa before us Homo sapiens emerged.