Gallery – Sterkfontein Caves Exhibition – Sterkfontein Caves Exhibition

There were many different species in the Australopithecus genus. More fossils of Australopithecus africanus, which lived between 3-million and 2-million years ago, have been found at the Cradle of Humankind than any other hominid species. The first adult specimen of an Australopethicus was discovered in 1936 at Sterkfontein by Dr Robert Broom, a palaeontologist and the director of the Transvaal Museum .