The Conversation

A forgotten settlement in the Cradle of Humankind adds a note to southern African history

Tim Forssman is affiliated with the University of Pretoria. But there is a more recent and largely neglected layer to the landscape’s history. My colleagues and I set out to investigate some ...
Purdue University

Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought

Darryl Granger of Purdue University developed the technology that updated the age of an Australopithecus found in Sterkfontein Cave. New data pushes its age back more than a million years, to 3.67 ...
New York Post

3 million-year-old tools found in the ‘cradle of humankind’ offer glimpse at prehistoric life

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa ...
New Scientist

Paleoanthropology journey to the Cradle of Humankind: South Africa

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EurekAlert!

Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For ...