Fossils of early human ancestors found in a South African cave system may be 1 million years older than first thought, according to a study published Monday.. The findings published in the Proceedings ...

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 ...

Mark Thiessan/National Geographic Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the ...

Attendees will be transported to South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, the site of the largest concentration of human ancestral remains in the world, during a lecture by paleoarchaeologist and ...