Maurice Taieb

Maurice Taieb
Taieb in 2020
Born(1935-07-22)22 July 1935
Bizerte, Tunisia
Died23 July 2021(2021-07-23) (aged 86)
Marseille, France
NationalityTunisian French

Maurice Taieb (22 July 1935 – 23 July 2021) was a Tunisian 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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