Maurice Taieb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Maurice Taieb

French anthropologist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1935

Place of Birth: Tunisia

Profession: geologist, researcher, paleontologist, anthropologist, paleoanthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Maurice Taieb

  • Maurice Taieb (born 1935) is a French geologist and paleoanthropologist.
  • He discovered the Hadar formation, recognized its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE).
  • This enabled co-director Donald Johanson to discover an early hominin fossil, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecine Lucy in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression .

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