The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later

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.

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