Author: Ziggy Slingsby

Ziggy is an aerialist, performance artist, teacher and shiatsu practitioner. She grew up in the Peak District National Park and has an MA in Choreography from The University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm. She currently lives and works in Bristol.

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Lucy

A black ink drawing of a human pelvis bone.

Lucy is a skeleton, female, 3.2 million years old and belongs to a species known as Australopithecus Afarensis. She was discovered in Ethiopia, 1974 and the study of her bones has advanced understanding of human evolution.