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• 1974 ----- color ----- 24 min ----- 16mm
• In 1924 Professor Raymond Dart discovered in southern Africa the skull of Australopithecus, a relative of modern man who lived more than a million years before Peking Man. Early footage of African anthropological exploration is presented when L. S. B. Leakey and others worked under the most difficult of conditions. Also shown is the research in progress by Professor Phillip Tobias at the fossil sites of Sterkfontein and Makapansgat. Presents the ways in which they expose, record and identify the fossils that form the fragile link with man's remote past.
• Topics: (Archaeology)

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