Maurice Taieb | |
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 Taieb in 2020 | |
| Born | 22 July 1935 Bizerte, Tunisia |
| Died | 23 July 2021 (aged 86) Marseille, France |
| Nationality | French |
Maurice Taieb (22 July 1935[1] – 23 July 2021) was 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.