The fossil hominid site is located in South Africa. It is known to be one of the world’s most important fossil sites because that is where the first few fossils in South Africa were discovered. Due to all of its discoveries, South Africa also became known as, The Cradle of Humankind. The site currently covers 47,000 square feet and contains many limestone caves. In 1947 a discovery was made in The Sterkfontein Caves by, Robert Broom and John T. Robinson. They had discovered the first fossil on the continent! They claimed the fossil to have been over 2 million years old and gave it its name, Australopithecus africanus (nicknamed “Mrs.Ples”), which is also known as the Southern Ape. In 1938 fragments from a skull were discovered by, Gert Terrblanche,
