INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY 2024
Today, March 8th, we celebrate a milestone in the history of paleoanthopology!
On International Women’s Day, we pay tribute to Lucy, one of the most famous fossils that has revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Discovered by the paleontologists Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb in 1974 in Ethiopia.
On this International Women’s Day, our small tribute to Lucy and all the women who have left an indelible mark on history.
Lucy is an ancestor of ours. Very remote, because it has been calculated that she is more than three million years old… A young girl who roamed the Ethiopian region of Afar. She was small, no more than one meter tall, she had no claws or large canines, but she had a great capacity for adaptation and survival. She was very young when death surprised her, we do not know if she would have had children by then, but it is possible that a little of her blood runs through our veins. She, or her companions, are part of our history, without them we would not be here.
TRAVELLING WITH DEATHREVOL: ANDENNE AND LIEGE (BELGIUM)
On this trip to Belgium, we had the opportunity to study the Scladina fossil remains at EMA – Andenne Museum Space and the Engis fossil collection at Evolution & Diversity Dynamics Lab of the University of Liège. Thanks to the hospitality of Dominique Bonjean and Valentin Fischer.
In the picture you can find the sculpture of Philippe-Charles Schmerling, located at the University of Liège. Schmerling was the discoverer of the first Neanderthal fossils in history in the Engis caves in Belgium. One hundred years after Schmerling’s death, the Engis 2 skull was classified as Neanderthal, thus becoming one of the most iconic fossils in the history of Paleoanthropology, placing Schmerling among the pioneers of this discipline.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE 2024
Today, February 11, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a tribute to our earliest predecessors. The Tabun 1, a Neanderthal woman whose remains have revealed valuable secrets about our evolutionary history. Did you know that Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge University? From pioneers who defied barriers to the bright young minds leading the way into the future, every woman in science inspires.
UPDATES TO OUR WEBSITE: INTERACTIVE MAP
We are happy to share with you the latest UPDATES to our website. Discover the interactive map on human evolution that we have prepared for you. Our website has been transformed to offer you an even more innovative and informative experience.
Do you know where the most important paleoanthropological sites are located? What species do the fossils found there belong to? Visit the new section “SITES” of our website to answer these questions and delve into the past!
TRAVELLING WITH DEATHREVOL: BONN (GERMANY)
The last short stay of the DEATHREVOL team of this year 2023 has been at the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn to continue studying Feldhofer and Oberkassel fossil collections.
To have the opportunity to analyze such important collections and contribute to their knowledge is a gift. Many thanks, especially to Ralf Schmitz, for making it possible.
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