Cover of Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor

Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor

The story of Johanson's major paleoanthropological discovery at Olduvai Gorge in July 1986.

Themes
archaeology
Audience
adult

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