Ronald J. Clarke is an paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot", an extraordinary complete skeleton of Australopithecus, in the Sterkfontein Caves. He also discovered the Homo ergaster partial cranium SK 847.^[1] He was associated with the University of the Witwatersrand until he was fired by Lee Berger, the head of the university's Palaeoanthropology Research Unit. He was then hired by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, Germany and allowed to continue his work excavating "Little Foot."^[2] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Little Foot is the nickname given to an extraordinarily complete fossil hominin skeleton found in 1994-1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. ... Species †A. afarensis (Lucy) †A. africanus †A. anamensis †A. bahrelghazali †A. garhi Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus † † † For the song Australopithecus by Modest Mouse, see Sad Sappy Sucker. ... Archaeologists in a structure above the entrance to Sterkfontein. ... Binomial name Homo ergaster Groves & Mazak, 1975 Homo ergaster (working man) is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1. ... The University of the Witwatersrand (pronounced vit-vaters-rant, with flat vowels -- see South African English) is a leading South African university situated in Johannesburg. ... I.G.Farben Building at Campus Westend The Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main (commonly called the University of Frankfurt) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...

External links

• Talk.Origins article on "Little Foot."
• Full Australopithecus Fossil Found in South Africa (Washington Post)

References

1. ^ Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language, 1996, New York:Simon & Schuster. pg. 184
2. ^ "World-renowned Scientist sacked" http://www.geotoursafrica.com/english/news.htm (scroll down) Accessed 15 May 2006