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Once upon a time (in 1924), near a little town called Taung in South Africa, a bunch of people who called themselves the Northern Lime Company were mining.  Every now and then a fossil would turn up in the material they pulled out of the earth, and the miners would ship it off to Professor Raymond Dart, who was a palaeontologist at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).  Normally, the fossilised skulls weren't that interesting because they only came from baboons.  But one day, a skull came along that was a slightly different shape.  After cleaning away all the limestone, he saw that it was the skull of a young ape-person.  This was the first discovery of it's kind on the continent, and was the beginning of one of the most exciting journeys through Africa ever... Summaries of the Web Site Availible: | Deutsch Zusammenfassung | | Resume en Francaise | | Afrikaanse Opsomming | | English Summary | This site is best viewed in 800 x 600