Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...
But the burial in South Africa found underground in the 'Rising Star' cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world heritage site near Johannesburg, dates back more than 200,000 years ...
Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...
A groundbreaking fossil discovery at Swartkrans Cave has revealed that an early human ancestor walked upright, providing new insights into its size and vulnerability to predators. A team of ...