Ron Clarke of the University of the Witwatersrand spent much of 15 years excavating the Little Foot fossil from rock deep inside the Sterkfontein caves near Johannesburg.
Sources
- 'Little Foot' Fossil Skeleton Rivals Famous Lucy in Age (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.science.org/content/article/little-foot-fossil-could-be-human-ancestor (science.org)
- https://gulfnews.com/world/oceania/south-african-little-foot-skeleton-fossil-could-change-map-of-human-ancestry-1.1306922 (gulfnews.com)
- https://sterkfonteincaves.wits.ac.za/our-people/ronald-clarke/ (sterkfonteincaves.wits.ac.za)
- https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2018/2018-12/little-foots-history-revealed-for-the-first-time.html (wits.ac.za)
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