Maurice Taieb [SEP] date of birth
Maurice Taieb
Maurice Taieb (born 1935) is a 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 .
Personal life.
Taieb was born in Tunisia in 1935 to a Tunisian father and a French mother. He travelled through the African outback with his
Middle Awash was a French professor named Maurice Taieb who surveyed the area in the 1960s. Ultimately, Taieb decided to focus his studies on an area North of Middle Awash called Hadar. Taieb recruited Yves Coppens, Don Johanson and Jon Kalb among others to help him with his work at Hadar (work is still taking place at Hadar to this day). This research team in 1972 and within 10 years found the first fossil hominids in the Afar Rift.
In 1975 Jon Kalb decided to leave the Hadar team to start