Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world ... her skull apart while using dynamite to excavate in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa. In spite of its inauspicious discovery ...

A new exhibition revisits the continent's contributions to humanity's evolution and culture and looks into the insights ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The ‘Cradle of Humankind’ (COH), bordering Gauteng and the NorthWest Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

In a region of eastern Africa known as the Cradle of Humankind, archeologists have unearthed an ancient ... For decades, researchers have combed the gorge for fossils and tools from the long-ago ...

There is always the possibility of fossil discoveries being made in ... and in particular the eastern and southern regions, is the cradle of humankind. Listen to Origins Of Humankind, the first ...

Despite its island state, the earliest record of human fossils in South Asia comes ... long-held belief that Africa was ...

scientists believed that modern people evolved in a specific "cradle of humankind" in East Africa, some 200,000 years ago. But more recently, researchers used high-tech methods to date fossil ...