Ronald J. Clarke

Who is Ronald J. Clarke?

Ronald J. Clarke is a paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot", an extraordinarily complete skeleton of Australopithecus, in the Sterkfontein Caves. A more technical description of various aspects of his description of the Australopithecus skeleton was published in the Journal of Quaternary Science,

He also discovered the Homo ergaster partial cranium SK 847. He also played a role in the discovery of a new skeleton of Homo habilis related to Homo rudolfensis

He was associated with the University of the Witwatersrand until he was fired by Lee Berger, the head of the university's Palaeoanthropology Research Unit. He was then hired by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, Germany and allowed to continue his work excavating "Little Foot". He later rejoined the University of the Witwatersrand's Institute for Human Evolution, where he remains as of present.