Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa reveal nearly four million years of hominin and environmental evolution. Since research began at the site in 1936 with the discovery, by ...

The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated to 3.4 to 3.6 million years ago, far older than previously thought.

Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa reveal nearly four million years of hominin and environmental evolution. The Sterkfontein Cave has become famous for the hundreds of ...

The Sterkfontein Caves contain more remains from Australopithecus than anywhere else on Earth. They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind."Mark Edward ...

Location: Sterkfontein Caves are situated in the Cradle of Humankind, about 40 km northwest of Johannesburg. Operating Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (last entry at 3:00 PM).

We spent some time with fossil technicians at the Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg. The caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site and have yielded some of the ...

The study of Australopithecus fossils from the Sterkfontein Caves found that hominins in South Africa existed around the same time as others in East Africa.

Granger used the same method in 2015 to estimate that one set of Australopithecus remains found in the Sterkfontein Caves, nicknamed Little Foot, was about 3.4 to 3.7 million years old.

The Sterkfontein Caves in Johannesburg, South Africa, reveal nearly 4 million years of evolution, say scientists, and contain more than a third of the world's early hominid bones ...

This new date makes the Sterkfontein Cave fossils older than the famed Lucy fossil (also known as Dinkinesh) from Ethiopia. Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis ...

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 Caves are a well-known fossil site near Johannesburg in South Africa. Many remains of so-called hominins have already been found there, including remains of the pre-human ...