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 ...

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 ...

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

Pollution in the rivers that pass through the Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg creates severe environmental, economic, and social concerns: ...

is the cradle of humankind. Listen to Origins Of Humankind, the first programme in the BBC landmark radio series The Story of Africa, presented by Hugh Quarshie ...

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 ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting ...