Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa peninsula is home to several artifacts 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 ...

were retrieved from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa’s “Cradle of Humankind.” The left leg and hip bones belong to a Paranthropus robustus adult female that stood only three foot four ...

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 ...