Purdue University

Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...
New York Post

3 million-year-old tools found in the ‘cradle of humankind’ offer glimpse at prehistoric life

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. 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 ...
RealClearScience

There's No Single Cradle of Humankind

(via PBS Eons) It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all ...
Purdue University

Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought

Darryl Granger of Purdue University developed the technology that updated the age of an Australopithecus found in Sterkfontein Cave. New data pushes its age back more than a million years, to 3.67 ...
PBS

No Single Cradle of Humankind

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that ...
Business Insider

Ancient fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' are more than 1 million years older than previously thought

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