Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this talk, Dr. Mirriam Tawane discusses the discovery of the Taung Child skull and more!
Dr. Mirriam Tawane is a core business executive for the National Heritage Council of South Africa. She is a paleoanthropologist who earned her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dr. Tawane served as curator of Plio-Pleistocene paleontology at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History. She has been involved in science outreach for the past ten years, participating in projects to teach learners and the general community about their heritage with respect to paleosciences, including Heritage Day celebrations at Taung, where the famous Taung Child was found.
This lecture is part of the Lucy and the Taung Child program and is presented in partnership with the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST). It is made possible by generous support from Camilla and George Smith, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund.
In this talk, Dr. Mirriam Tawane discusses the discovery of the Taung Child skull and more!
Dr. Mirriam Tawane is a core business executive for the National Heritage Council of South Africa. She is a paleoanthropologist who earned her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dr. Tawane served as curator of Plio-Pleistocene paleontology at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History. She has been involved in science outreach for the past ten years, participating in projects to teach learners and the general community about their heritage with respect to paleosciences, including Heritage Day celebrations at Taung, where the famous Taung Child was found.
This lecture is part of the Lucy and the Taung Child program and is presented in partnership with the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST). It is made possible by generous support from Camilla and George Smith, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund.
