Maurice Taieb

Maurice Taieb
Taieb in 2020
Born	(1935-07-22)22 July 1935 Bizerte, Tunisia
Died	23 July 2021(2021-07-23) (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.