# Maurice Taieb

> Maurice Taieb was a Tunisian 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.

*French geologist and anthropologist (1935-2021)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1935-07-22
- **Died:** 2021-07-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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