The five kilometres of passages and chambers in the Sterkfontein Cave system northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, have yielded about 800 Australopithecus specimens in the past 90 years.

The Sterkfontein excavation site ... The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey dolomite of the cave walls and remnant roof of the chamber. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

To get a better look at diets in the deep past, Lüdecke and her colleagues drilled samples out of the teeth of 43 roughly 3.5-million-year-old fossilized mammals from the Sterkfontein caves in ...

The Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng One of the world’s most significant ... dating back over two million years. The Sterkfontein Caves and Maropeng Visitor Centre, a major attraction within the ...