The cave system is part of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage ... was covered in dirt and then decayed within the grave itself, in part demonstrating that it was buried ...

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 decades, scientists ...

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 peninsula is home to several artifacts of ...

The ancient hominin fossils were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves, 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, that form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Cradle of Humankind.

The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it was first discovered. "My aim is to find important bones here ...

Carvings found near Homo naledi graves in the Rising Star cave system ... Star is one of the most well-known caves in the Cradle of Humankind, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the first-ever tools used on Earth at a site in Africa dubbed 'the cradle of humankind.' Found in Kenya's Homa Peninsula, this region has produced clues ...

The Rising Star Expedition – a team consisting mostly of women – has been delving deep into the Cradle of Humankind’s caves looking for fossils. A two-million-year-old fox fossil has been ...

(Purdue University photo/Lena Kovalenko) 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 ...

Early human fossils dug up in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa may be more than one million years older than thought, a new dating process suggests. The Unesco World Heritage Site ...