Gallery – Sterkfontein Caves Exhibition – Sterkfontein Caves Exhibition

“Mrs Ples” is the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus specimen ever discovered. The skull was found encased in breccia at Sterkfontein in 1947 by palaeontologist Dr Robert Broom and his assistant, John Robinson. The discovery of “Mrs Ples” helped to highlight the view that humankind was born in Africa – a theory that most scientists were sceptical of at the time.