Lucy – first Mother of Humankind: Her epic true story cast as a fable in poetics

An epic retelling of  the momentous discovery in the annals of paleoanthropology; that  begins in the  Hadar locality  of the Afar triangle, Ethiopia about 3.2 MYA (million years ago) where Lucy – in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, the cradle and cauldron of Mankind.

The sheer chance discovery of a substantially  complete  fossil on record of  the first bi-pedal hominid – new species   named Australopithecus Afarensis – that marked the very root and direct branch or evolution leading to  our species,  homo sapiens  starting ca 100,000 years ago.

It  is  a poetic testament and a “thriller’  that stands on its own merits;   backed by hard science; and  a  marker of the deepest nature of our humankind’s collective beginnings and wonder of the progression thereafter  to our forefathers