Discovering Lucy

by Sydney Cahoon

Who is Lucy
Lucy died 3.2 million years
ago.
Was discovered by Donald
Johanson, Maurice Taieb,
Yves Coppens, and Tom
Gray.
Lucy is a Australopithecus
Afarensis

Who found Lucy:

Yeves Coppens:
Donald Johanson:
Bachelors Degree from University of
Illinois 1966
Masters Degree 1970 and PHD 1974
from University of Chicago.

Maurice Taieb:
Currently Director of Research for the
National Centre for Scientific Research
at the European Centre of Research
and Teaching of Geosciences of the
Environment.

Graduated from University of Renns.

Has studied ancient hominids and
has published multiple works.

Tom Gray:
Archeologist, Graduate student
when Lucy was found.

Where and How

found
in Afar
the Afar
Triangle
LucyLucy
waswas
found
in the
Triangle
in in
Ethiopia
on November
Ethiopia
on November
24th24th
19761976
by by
Donald
Johanson
when
Donald
Johanson
and and
TomTom
GrayGray
when
talked
Johanson
to take
a break
GrayGray
talked
Johanson
to take
a break
updating
his field
notes.
fromfrom
updating
his field
notes.
Took three weeks to uncover all of the
bones of the skeleton, but when all was
said and done they had found 40% of the
initial makeup of Lucy.

Australopithecus Afarensis lived from around

3.85 and 2.95 million years ago. They lived
primarily in the Eastern Africa region.

Australopithecus had both ape and

human characteristics.

Height and Weight

MALES:
4ft 11in
92 lbs

FEMALES:
3ft 5in
64 lbs

Took a shorter amount of time to reach

adulthood.
Believed to have eaten sweet fruit due
to their teeth, but are assumed to have
eaten lizards.

What is a Australopithecus Afarensis?

Bibliography
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/australopithecus-afa
rensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/laetoli-footprint-trails
Johanson, Donald C., and Maitland A. Edey. Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Print.