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Taung|taʊŋ|
Also Taungs.
The name of a town in the northern Cape Province, South Africa, used attrib. in Taung child, Taung skull, etc., to designate the remains of a fossil hominid, Australopithecus africanus, found in a limestone cliff there in 1924. Cf. Australopithecus.
1931A. Keith New Discoveries Antiquity Man iii. 61 How does the brain development of the Taungs skull fit into the human scheme of growth? 1962G. H. R. Von Koenigswald Evol. Man iii. 61 (caption) Front view of original Taungs skull. 1973B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 136/1 The Taung child had an endocranial capacity of approximately 405 cc. Ibid. 136/2 Judging the Taung specimen from tooth eruption to be around five years of age, the adult individual would have had a cranial capacity of 440 cc. 1978P. V. Tobias in C. J. Jolly Early Hominids in Africa 45 The prima facie case for the likely taxonomic affinities of the Taung skull rests on the concept that two main hominid lineages..existed side by side in Africa. |