Ronald J. Clarke

Ronald J. Clarke, also: Ron Clarke ( born 1944 ) is a living in South Africa British paleoanthropologist, who became internationally known in professional circles as the discoverer of " Little Foot ", an exceptionally complete fossil of the genus Australopithecus, which so far none of the known Australopithecus species has been assigned.

Ron Clarke discovered in 1969 in the Swartkrans fossil SK 847, a 1.8 million to 1.5 million year old skull fragment that is initially as " robust australopithecines ", but today mostly classified as Homo ergaster, but occasionally as Homo habilis.

Clarke was also involved, among other things in the discussion on the demarcation of Homo rudolfensis of Homo habilis, the 65 emerged after the discovery of the fossil OH at Olduvai Gorge.

Clarke worked a long time at the University of the Witwatersrand as a restorer, but was in 1998 by Lee Berger, head of the Department of Paleoanthropology dismissed because his research " old-fashioned and too expensive " is. He could his research - in particular in connection with the exposure of " Little Foot " - initially only continue, because he was recruited by Reiner Protsch of Zieten for its Working Group at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe- University Frankfurt am Main. Three years after his release the Witwatersrand University taught each one a separate department for Clarke and Berger, so that Clarke was able to return to South Africa again.

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