Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind. Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

Located in the vicinity of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the Cradle of Humankind is a treasure trove of early hominin fossils Some 2.5 million years ago when saber-toothed cats roamed the rolling ...

At Kromdraai in South Africa, José Braga has unearthed the remains of two children. They date from 2.5 million years ago, and one is human, the other a Paranthropus, a member of the hominin genus most ...

Explore the birth of language and art at archeological excavations scientists are now calling “the cradle of the human mind”. How did we become our planet’s only global species, at home in ...

They were the first members of the human family, or hominins, known to have made it to Europe from Africa, the cradle of humanity. We modern Homo sapiens first showed up in Africa around 300,000 ...