Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lucy's discovery! On November 24, 1974, Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray were mapping an area of Hadar, Ethiopia when Johanson discovered a forearm bone fragment sticking out of the ground. Three weeks of excavation later, they had collected what would later be known as Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh, the most complete early human skeleton at the time. Curator of Anthropology, Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout tells the story of Lucy's discovery, h

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