Cradle of Humankind

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UNESCO World Heritage Site paleoanthropological site tourist attraction

The Cradle of Humankind is a renowned paleoanthropological site near Johannesburg that has yielded some of the world’s most important hominin fossils, illuminating early human evolution.

Aliases (2)

Kromdraai fossil site ×1
Sterkfontein Caves ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO World Heritage Site → paleoanthropological site → tourist attraction →
area	about 47000 hectares →
contains	Bolt’s Farm → Coopers Cave → Drimolen → Gladysvale → Gondolin Cave → Haasgat → Kromdraai fossil site → Lincoln Cave → Milo’s Cave → Mimosa Cave → Minnaar’s Cave → Mole Cave → Mossel Bay Cave → Motsetse Cave → Old School Quarry → Peabody’s Cave → Pip’s Cave → Plover’s Lake → Skull Cave → Sterkfontein Caves → Swartkrans → Wayne’s World Cave → Wells Cave → Wolfs Cave → Wonder Cave → Zwartkrans Cave →
continent	Africa →
country	South Africa →
geologicalAge	Pleistocene → Pliocene →
geologicalFormation	karst landscape →
hasExhibition	Maropeng Exhibition →
hasFossilFind	Australopithecus africanus → Paranthropus robustus → early Homo species →
hasVisitorCenter	Maropeng Visitor Centre →
inscribedBy	UNESCO →
knownFor	early human evolution research → hominin fossils → karstic limestone caves →
locatedIn	Gauteng →
locatedNear	Johannesburg →
managedBy	Gauteng Provincial Government →
officialLanguageOfSignage	Afrikaans → English → isiZulu →
partOf	World Heritage Sites in Africa →
researchField	archaeology → paleoanthropology →
researchInstitutionInvolved	University of the Witwatersrand →
significance	evidence for human evolution → largest concentration of hominin fossils yet found →
timeDepthOfFossils	over 3 million years →
tourismActivity	guided cave tours → paleoanthropology exhibitions →
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(iii) → (vi) →
UNESCOWorldHeritageDesignationYear	1999 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cradle of Humankind ("Sterkfontein Caves") → Cradle of Humankind ("Kromdraai fossil site") →	contains
South Africa →	hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite