The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
by Lee Berger and Marc Aronson
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- Grade
- 3-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2012
Word Count 8,662
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1140L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 154478, 2 AR Points
- Subject Headings
- South Africa
- Fossil hominids
- Paleoanthropology
- Human beings--Origin
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Prehistoric
- Origin
- Excavations (Archaeology)--South Africa--Witwatersrand Region
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science
- Human beings
- Berger, Lee R
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Discoveries
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Fossils
- Witwatersrand Region
- Fossil hominids--South Africa--Witwatersrand Region
- Human evolution--South Africa--Witwatersrand Region
- Fossils
- Human evolution
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