The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
Author: Aronson, Marc
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8662
Points per Word
0.000231
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Text and photographs share the South African discovery of two well-preserved 2-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and a young male, hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. The coauthor is Lee Berger.