Sterkfontein
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Sterkfontein is a set of limestone caves of special interest in paleoanthropology located in Gauteng province, about 40 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Muldersdrift area clo
Archaeologists in a structure above the entrance to Sterkfontein
The interior of the caves
The tiny white shrimp that inhabit the clear water of the Sterkfontein Caves
Entrance to the Silberberg Grotto containing Little Foot
Mrs. Ples
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Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa. Many Australopithecus fossils have been found near Sterkfontein, about 40 kil
Sterkfontein
…excavation during World War II, but after the war Dr. Robert Broom continued excavations. In 1947, he found a nearly complete skull of an adult female (STS 5) A. africanus (or possibly that of an adolescent male). Broom initially named the skull Plesianthropus transvaalensis (near-man from Transvaal), but…
Mrs Ples Face
Australopithecus africanus at Ugandan National Museum
Mrs Ples