"It has enabled them to broaden their former understanding of the concept of humankind." Karabo is a 1.95-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton, who would have been between nine and 13 years ...

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe swept ancient soil into a blue dustpan, each ...

For two and a half years, the "Cradle of Humankind" has been closed. Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the first-ever tools used on Earth at a site dubbed 'the cradle of humankind.' They found 3mn-year-old knives made from stones.

They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind." Mark Edward Harris Scientists say early human ancestors, whose remains are in a South African cave, lived about ...

Johannesburg - Two years, the Malapa Nature Reserve in the Cradle of Humankind brought us Australopithecus sediba – a previously undiscovered hominid species. Now, the same site has given ...