Taung, North West

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The Taung Child skull, now exhibited at the Maropeng visitor's centre at the Cradle of Humankind.
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. The name place of the lion and was named after Tau, the chief of the Tswana speaking Legoya or BaTaung tribe. Tau is the Tswana word for lion.

In 1924 a skull (later named the Taung Child) was discovered by a quarry-worker in the nearby Buxton-limestone quarry. It was described by Raymond Dart in 1925 as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus, and is from an approximately 3-year-old individual probably killed by an eagle.[1] The skull is now housed at the Cradle of Humankind visitor's centre.

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