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	Taung fossil site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Taung child skull was blasted out of an ancient cave infill during quarry operations at the Buxton limeworks, near the village of Taung.
		Most interpretations of the fauna indicate that the Taung environment was a relatively xeric open savannah, in contrast to the growing evidence that early hominids tended to live in more wooded or forested environments.
		The relative aridity of Taung was the keystone of the long-held "savannah hypothesis" that hominids became bipedal as an adaptation to savannah environments.
	home.insight.rr.com /jkmckee/taung.htm (558 words)

	Taung Child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taung Child refers to the fossil of a skull specimen of Australopithecus africanus.
		Taung Child had a cranial capacity of 340 cc, living mainly in a savanna habitat.
		This conclusion was reached by noting similarities in the damage to the skull and eye sockets of the Taung Child to the skulls of primates known to have been killed by modern eagles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taung_Child (427 words)

	Human Ancestors Hall: Taung 1
		The Taung specimen was the first early human fossil found in Africa.
		Dart's publication on the "Taung Child," as it was being called, met with immediate criticism from an established community for the most part committed to Piltdown Man.
		The position of the foramen magnum, or the hole through which the spinal chord connects with the brain, was positioned well to the front of the skull, an adaptation of a bipedal creature whose head would rest atop the neck in a relatively balanced position.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/ha/taung1.html (443 words)

	Biographies: Raymond Dart
		In 1924, Dart learned of a fossil baboon skull that had been found at a nearby limestone quarry at Taung, and asked to be sent any more bones or fossils that were found.
		At the time, Piltdown Man was widely accepted as a human ancestor, and Taung, with its apelike skull and humanlike teeth, seemed difficult to reconcile with Piltdown's human skull and apelike jaw.
		Dart lived to see the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Taung child, and died in 1988 at the age of 95.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/rdart.html (708 words)

	Taung - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Taungs, later known as the Mandalorians, were a warlike Near-Human species with gray skin that controlled the planet Coruscant thousands of years before the rise of Humans.
		The Taungs fled to Roon, where they remained for thousands of years, until, under the leadership of the legendary Mandalore the First, the Taungs conquered a world which they renamed in honor of their leader, Mandalore.
		The name Taung may be a reference to the Taung Child, a fossil skull which was the first known example of the early hominind Australopithecus africanus.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Taung (285 words)

	Who killed the Taung child? - SouthAfrica.info
		The Taung child, only three-and-a-half years old, was a member of Australopithecus africanus, a species of bipedal hominid and an early human ancestor.
		Professor Lee Berger of Wits University's palaeoanthropology unit announced on Thursday that it was evident from the marks on its skull that a bird of prey similar to the African crown hawk eagle had swooped down and seized the child with its large talons and beak, killing it immediately.
		A small skull with a detached lower jaw bone, the Taung specimen was the first hominid to be discovered in Africa.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/scitech/taung-skull-130106.htm (897 words)

	Taung Heritage Site
		The finding of the Taung skull at the Buxton quarry in the North West Province, was noted to be one of the most significant archaeological accomplishments of time.
		Taung, meaning “the place of the lion” was named after Tau, the chief of the Bataung people.
		The Taung Dam is an attractive picnic area situated a short distance from the village.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/195.html (362 words)

	ARCTAUNG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Taung is situated on the Ghaap Escarpment, a Precambrian cuesta here mantled by a sequence of four stream-laid accumulations of lime tufa, known (from oldest to youngest) as the Thabaseek, Norlim, Oxland and Blue Pool Tufas.
		While it was presumed that maximum tufa formation had taken place under wetter than present conditions, recent radiocarbon dating of young tufas at Gorrokop, suggests that tufa growth phases were very largely confined to the transition from arid glacials to more humid interglacials.
		Described by Dart in 1925, it was found by quarryman M. de Bruyn during mining operations and came from a reddish clayey flowstone underlying sterile semi-cemented red sand in a cavity c.
	www.museumsnc.co.za /mcgregor/departments/Archaeology/taung.htm (1289 words)

	Wes U Archaeology Collections CATALOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Discovered at Taung, South Africa by Raymond Dart in 1924 among two crates of fossiliferous breccia (blocks of sandy sediment and fossils cemented together) from a limestone quarry.
		This was because juveniles are often misrepresentative of adult states, and most researchers claimed that the Taung Child would have developed into a chimpanzee or gorilla ancestor.
		Also, the Taung Child did not fit the popular preconceived idea that the earliest ancestor of humans would have an ape-like body and a human-like large brain.
	www.wesleyan.edu /archprog/Taung.htm (198 words)

	Australopithecus africanus
		Taung Child skull and endocast) as a hominid.
		The standard line at the time by some of the powerful figures in the field (e.g., A. Keith and O. Abel) was that the ancestors of humans should be found in Europe, and should have an enlarged brain and an apelike jaw (as was the case in the Piltdown Man hoax).
		This view was not helped by the difficulty in acquiring casts, the material was distant from many in the field (few of which ever travelled to actually view the material), and most importantly, was that of a juvenile.
	www.modernhumanorigins.net /africanus.html (1541 words)

	A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution: Taung Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.
		Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old.
		But because the skulls of young humans and young apes are so similar, and because the skull was so different from other found fossils, including the phony Piltdown Man, other scientists ignored the find as well as Dart's interpretation.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/taung.html (208 words)

	Myanmar Architecture: Nat Taung temple, Bagan
		Nat Taung Kyaung (or Nat-taung Monastery, also known at May-taung Taik), located in the vicinity of Taung-bi village and immediately to the north of the town walls of Old Bagan, sets in a secluded clearing amidst a wide variety of trees and vegetation.
		The restoration of the avian creatures in the roof decorations, the ‘a-saw’ flame-like decorations on the roof lines, the ‘du-yin’ prow-like roof ornamentation, the carvings on the bargeboards and the decorations of the balustrades reflect the attempt to restore and maintain authenticity.
		Nat Taung, however, is not just a museum piece to recreate the past; it is a living and working monastery, although I am not sure how many were living there at the time I was there.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /bagan/NATTAUNG.htm (907 words)

	The Taung Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province.
		Professor Raymond Dart discovered that it had several features that were more human than ape-like: the face was flatter, the head rounder and the brain larger.
		Most significantly, in the Taung Child the foramen magnum — the hole in the skull through which the spinal cord passes — was towards the front of the skull, indicating that this creature stood on two legs.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/taung-child.htm (172 words)

	Taung - North West Province South Africa
		Taung "The Place of the Lion" named after Tau, chief of the Bataung people, who made his headquarters here during the 18th century
		Taung - the "place of the lion" made world headlines when Australian anthropologist Professor Raymond Dart made a startling find here in 1924.
		The little Taung skull, which he classified as Australopithecus africanus, belongs to one of the earliest hominids that lived in southern Africa some 2.5 million years ago.
	www.tourismnorthwest.co.za /bophirima/taung.html (278 words)

	The Taung Skull: ‘missing link’?
		However, Dart’s discovery of a skull in lime works at Taung did not legitimize the evolution theory, but rather caused great debate among scientists of the day, raising questions which have yet to be answered.
		It was noted at the time of discovery that the Taung Skull had many points of affinity with the gorilla and chimpanzee, and many scientists had no hesitation placing it in the living group of apes.
		At the time of his Taung discovery he was working with limited resources, without colleagues, a library for reference, or museum specimens for comparison.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v16/i1/taung.asp (1140 words)

	Tusk Taung Hotel in Taung, North West Province
		Taung, a historical landmark of the North-West, is famous for the discovery of the 2,5 million-year-old skull, magnificent marble and this beautiful hotel.
		The Tusk Taung Hotel is situated on the old location of the Bataung peoples mid-eighteenth century headquarters, with Taung meaning "Place of the Tau Lion" - the name of their chief.
		The Tusk Taung Hotel is a two storey building built in a gentle arc and framing a large pool area.
	www.sa-venues.com /nwp/tusktaung.htm (485 words)

	Australopithecus africanus
		Dart was one of the pioneers of paleoanthropology, and created quite a furor over naming the fossil specimen (the Taung Child skull and endocast) a hominid.
		The material was distant from many in the field (few of which ever traveled to actually view the material), and most importantly, was that of a juvenile.
		Tobias, P.V. "New researches at Sterkfontein and Taung with a note on Piltdown and its relavence to the history of paleo-anthropology." In Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, vol.
	www.archaeologyinfo.com /australopithecusafricanus.htm (1489 words)

	Taung, North West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Taung Child skull, now exhibited at the Maropeng visitor's centre at the Cradle of Humankind.
		Taung is a small town situated in North West Province of South Africa.
		In 1924 a child's skull (later named the Taung Child) was discovered by a quarry-worker in the nearby Buxton-limestone quarry, which was first described by Raymond Dart in 1925.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Taung.htm (118 words)

	:: WHO KILLED THE TAUNG CHILD? :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Comparison of the Taung skull and a monkey skull (Pic: Lee Berger and Scott MGraw)
		Previously, experts had believed that the child, whose fossil skull was found by Professor Raymond Dart in North West in 1924, had been killed by a leopard or sabre-tooth cat.
		These included flaps of depressed bone on top of the skull, keyhole-shaped cuts in the side of the skulls made by the eagles' beaks, and puncture markets and ragged incisions in the base of the eye sockets, made when the eagles ripped out the eyes of the monkeys.
	www.joburg.org.za /2006/jan/jan13_taungchild.stm (962 words)

	Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds \| LiveScience
		The Taung child's discovery led to the search for human origins in Africa, instead of in Asia or Europe as once theorized.
		Researchers had speculated the Taung child was killed by a leopard or saber-toothed feline.
		But 10 years ago, Berger and fellow researcher Ron Clarke submitted the theory the hunter was a large predatory bird, based on the fact most of the other fossils found at the same site were small monkeys that showed signs of having been killed by a predatory bird.
	www.livescience.com /history/060112_ap_bird_hunt.html (495 words)

	Myanmar Travel Agents .net (AhNyar Thar Travel Agent)
		Nat Ma Taung (Mt. Victoria), one of the National Parks of Myanmar and a habitat of diverse species of birds.
		The footpath leads to the summit of Nat Mat Taung (Mt. Victoria), which is also known as "Khaw Nu Som" in Chin language, meaning "Mount of Mother Land'.
		A visit to Nat Ma Taung region is possible with a permit from Myanmar authorities only.
	www.myanmartravelagents.net /natma-taung.htm (812 words)

	allAfrica.com: South Africa: Calls for Speedy Building of Taung Houses, Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A portfolio committee visiting Taung in the Bophirima district has recommended that the building of houses and schools for victims of floods that occurred earlier this year, be speeded up.
		Taung was declared a local disaster area by the Greater Taung Municipality, earlier this year, after being hit by floods.
		Furthermore, the road projects were divided into three phases of approximately 6.5kms each, and the first contract was the upgrading of 6.8km gravel road between Khibicwane and Cokonyane villages in Taung and the progress on the construction work was not satisfactory.
	allafrica.com /stories/200610310477.html (648 words)

	Australopithecus africanus, the Taung child - Anthropology, Lower Palaeolithic 2.5million- at The Natural History ...
		Frontal view of a cast of a skull of Australopithecus africanus from Taung, Cape Province, South Africa.
		The original skull, thought to be of a child aged between 3-4 was discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart.
		Having claimed to have found the missing link, Dart?s theories were not well received and wouldn?t gain recognition until Dr. Broom, during the 1930s excavated more evidence in support of the existence of A. africanus.
	piclib.nhm.ac.uk /piclib/www/image.php?img=51654 (146 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Taung devastation 'mind-boggling'
		About R500-million may be required to rebuild the flood-ravaged Taung area in North West, according to a recommendation made by the provincial legislature.
		In many places, vehicles still had to battle fiercely running water while in others long detours had to be taken to avoid pools of standing water.
		Mahlakeng commended the Greater Taung Municipality for the role it had played after the disaster.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/239569.htm (392 words)

	The Glory of Myathabeik Taung
		The English translation of the Burmese version of the book on the legend of Myathabeik Taung presents here for a very good reason, because the Myathabeik Taung Cedi is an auspicious and sacred Cedi with the real Buddha Hair relics enshrined.
		It is only fitting to begin the legend of the glory of Myathabeik Taung Cetiya with the Dhammapada Verse No. 195 and 196, the Buddha instruction on the building of cetiya.
		This is the glory of thetganet Cedi and the Myathabeik Taung Cedi.
	home.earthlink.net /~mpaw1238/id47.html (3191 words)

	Carolina Biological: Anthropology and Archaeology: The Taung Skull: A Controversial Fossil
		Dr. Dart named it the Taung skull after the region in which it was found.
		Exact dating of the Taung skull has always been difficult, but we can infer that it is probably from the Lower Pleistocene.
		The discovery of the Taung skull is important to scientists who theorize that Africa is the "cradle of humanity."
	www.carolina.com /anthropology/taung.asp?print=yes (318 words)

	New sites for Humankind's Cradle - SouthAfrica.info
		The Taung fossil site in North West province and Mokapane's Valley in Limpopo have been incorporated into South Africa's Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site, which includes the fossil hominid sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and environs in Gauteng.
		The incorporation of the Taung site comes from the significance of the Taung skull, the fossilised partial cranium of a juvenile hominid Australopethicus africanus discovered there in 1924 and identified by anthropologist Raymond Dart.
		When that find was later proved to be a forgery, the Taung fossil took its rightful place as proof that human evolution began in Africa, not Asia.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/taung-whc-180705.htm (562 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		The announcement that the Taung child was killed by an eagle was made on Thursday by Professor Lee Berger at an international conference held at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg.
		The Taung child is a specimen of the human ancestor species Australopithecus africanus and the first early human ancestor fossil to be discovered in Africa, according to a statement released by Wits on Thursday.
		Berger was then driven to re-examine the Taung child, probably the most photographed human ancestor with possibly more casts of it scattered around the world than from any other single fossil.
	mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=261127&area=/breaking_news/... (909 words)

	Taung Child 'fell from the sky' - human-evolution - 09 September 1995 - New Scientist
		Taung Child 'fell from the sky' - human-evolution - 09 September 1995 - New Scientist
		EVER since the fossilised skull of an infant hominid was found at Taung on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in 1924, scientists have wondered what the child was doing there and how it died.
		Despite exhaustive excavations, no other specimen of Australopithecus africanus, as the fossil was named, has ever been found at Taung to indicate that this was a regular hominid haunt.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/being-human/human-evolution/mg14719940.800-taung-child-fell-from-the-sky.html (280 words)

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