![]() Believed to be the earliest human ancestor yet discovered, she was dug from the ground by a team led by Tim White, a larger-than-life personality whose energy at excavating and classifying bones is matched only by his fervor for disagreeing disagreeably with other scientists. In Fossil Men, he recounts the saga of “Ardi,” a skeleton uncovered in the rugged hills of Ethiopia by a brilliant and irascible American paleoanthropologist considered by many the world’s premier fossil hunter.Īrdi - short for Ardipithecus ramidus - is the bony remains of a woman more than 4.4 million years old. Paul author Kermit Pattison donned his metaphorical pith helmet and cargo shorts and created a work of staggering depth that brings us into the search for the oldest human. Not exactly what usually comes to mind when you think about archaeology. Friendships made and lost, bitter jealousies, dizzying discoveries. ![]() ![]() This is a story of intrigue, of anger, of decisions made at the point of a gun. ![]()
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