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	Fossil Hominids: Little Foot (Stw 573)
		These bones were actually discovered in Sterkfontein Cave in the late 1970's, but were only recognized as hominid when Ronald Clarke found them while looking through a box of miscellaneous bones in 1994.
		Other scientists, most notably Owen Lovejoy, disagreed, arguing that the australopithecine hip, knee and spine are all adapted for bipedality, and that it is "mechanically and developmentally naive" to ignore all this evidence in favor of one foot joint.
		He asked two of the Sterkfontein preparators to search for a matching piece of bone in the exposed breccia surfaces of the cave.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/littlefoot.html (728 words)

	Sterkfontein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for strong fountain) is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleo-anthropologists located Northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa near the town of Krugersdorp.
		Sterkfontein was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 and is also called the Cradle of Humankind.
		In 1936, the Sterkfontein caves yielded the first adult Australopithecine, substantially strengthening Raymond Dart's claim that the skull known as the Taung child (Australopithecus africanus) was a human ancestor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sterkfontein (280 words)

	Geological Heritage Tours: The Cradle of Humankind
		The Sterkfontein cave was the discovery site of "Mrs Ples", an almost complete cranium of Australopithicus africanus, 1947 by Dr Robert Broom and Mr John T Robinson.
		Sterkfontein Caves: These caves are located within the small Isaac Stegmann Nature Reserve north of Krugersdorp and belong to the University of the Witwatersrand.
		Sterkfontein is regarded as the richest site in the world for australopithecine fossils and over 500 hominid specimens have been recovered.
	www.geosites.co.za /cradle.htm (1458 words)

	speleogenesis.net :: Archive :: Printer friendly
		Sterkfontein Cave is situated 35km to the NW of Johannesburg (Fig.
		Sterkfontein is as yet the richest hominid site in South Africa and has the potential to yield a wealth of fossils to scientists for many years to come.
		Sterkfontein is a three-dimensional hyperphreatic maze of fissure passages typical of the karst of the Transvaal basin.
	www.speleogenesis.info /archive/art_printer.php?PubID=3261 (9069 words)

	Sterkfontein - Definition, explanation
		Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for strong fountain) is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleo-anthropologists located Northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa near the town of Krugersdorp.
		Sterkfontein was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 and is sometimes referred to as the cradle of humanity.
		In 1936, the Sterkfontein caves yielded the first adult Australopithecine, substantially strengthening Raymond Dart's claim that the skull known as the Taung child (Australopithecus africanus) was a human ancestor.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/st/sterkfontein.php (382 words)

	:: NEW-LOOK COMPLEX OPENS AT STERKFONTEIN CAVE ::
		Now, you can visit the new Sterkfontein Cave complex, consisting of a restaurant, auditorium, souvenir shop, hominid exhibition hall with interactive exhibits (to open in August 2005), a wooden walkway from which excavations can be viewed, and a look-in at the laboratory where scientists examine the fossil finds.
		Sterkfontein Cave is one of 13 excavated fossil sites in the broader 47 000-hectare Cradle of Humankind site, some 50km north west of Johannesburg, indicated by a monolith at the roadside just off the R563.
		Roads leading to Sterkfontein are being improved, to the tune of R87-million, according to Paul Mashatile, the Gauteng MEC of finance and economic affairs.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/mar/mar18_sterkfontein.stm (811 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Fossil find stirs human debate
		This Sterkfontein individual was a climber in the trees and bipedal on the ground
		Sterkfontein is probably the richest site on Earth for the fossils of early hominids, and the ancient cave system is now part of a World Heritage Site.
		The early humans they represent are thought to have fallen to their deaths in the caves when the limestone complex first broke the surface.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2709797.stm (572 words)

	Sterkfontein's old, old bones - SouthAfrica.info
		Listening to Professor Philip Tobias (right) during a visit the Sterkfontein Caves during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (from left to right): South African President Thabo Mbeki, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Mrs Annan, primatologist Jane Goodall, and Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
		The biggest and best-known of the caves is Sterkfontein, where over 500 hominid fossils and over 9 000 stone tools have been found.
		In the late 1890s, miners dynamited the Sterkfontein caves, searching for limestone which they converted into quick lime, an element needed for the processing of gold and the manufacture of cement.
	www.safrica.info /heritage/sterkfontein.htm (1218 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		A new Australopithecus cranium from Sterkfontein and its bearing on the ancestry of Paranthropus.
		Sterkfontein is a complicated site, including several distinct caverns and deposition layers, called members.
		The Sterkfontein deposits are divided into six members, and hominid have been recovered from Member 5, Member 4, and Member 2.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/africanus/sterkfontein (2581 words)

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		The discovery of bone-bearing breccias of Sterkfontein was made between 1895 and 1897.
		In 1966 P.V. Tobias commenced with new excavations at Sterkfontein.
		It is infered that Sterkfontein and Makapansgat are at least of the same age as the Olduval Bed in Tanganyika (aprox.
	sunsite.wits.ac.za /health/sterkf.html (634 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Sterkfontein
		The Sterkfontein Caves and the Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind are part of our national pride, which should be reason enough to visit them.
		Her case was struck off the court roll and she was sent to Sterkfontein Mental Hospital, where she will stay until the court decides on her fate.
		Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital, the type of institution equipped to deal with these cases, only catered for adults so children referred by the courts for...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Sterkfontein.htm (2715 words)

	Sterkfontein
		Johannesburg - Four escapees from the Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital in Krugersdorp are still on the run, West Rand police said on Monday.
		Four men who escaped from the Sterkfontein Psychiatric Hospital in Krugersdorp on Saturday are still on the run, West Rand police said on Monday.
		A court official said he would return to the court on November 29 when a bed was expected to be available at the Sterkfontein mental facility where he would be...
	conservation.mongabay.com /Sterkfontein.htm (473 words)

	--- New Sterkfontein Cave complex opens --- (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The R163-million public-private partnership project involves the FSG consortium, the University of the Witwatersrand and the Gauteng department of agriculture, conservation, environment and land affairs, which provided the funds.
		The site, of which the world famous Sterkfontein Cave is one part, has undergone a major upgrade.
		Entrance to Sterkfontein Cave is R35 for adults and R20 for children; it is open from 9am to 4pm and there are guided tours every half an hour.
	www.mogalecity.gov.za /news2005/mar/mar18_sterkfontein.stm (457 words)

	Showcasing humankind's cradle - SouthAfrica.info
		The new Sterkfontein Cave visitors' centre - the first phase of a multimillion rand development at the Cradle of Humankind outside Johannesburg - is now complete, offering a richer experience at one of the world's most important archaeological sites.
		Roads leading to Sterkfontein are being improved, to the tune of R87-million, according to Gauteng Finance and Economic Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile, who says the province is keenly aware of the potential of the development to increase tourism and create jobs in the area.
		Sterkfontein's first piece de resistance: the Australopithecus africanus Mrs Ples (now believed to be a Mister Ples), dating back 2.5-million years, found by Robert Bloom in 1947.
	www.southafrica.info /plan_trip/holiday/culture_heritage/cradle-centre.htm (890 words)

	Endocranial Capacity in Early Human Cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa
		In 1989, the late Allen Hughes discovered the partial cranium of a large early human at Sterkfontein Member 4, in South Africa.
		This specimen is the most complete cranium recovered at Sterkfontein since the discovery of "Mrs.
		The problem for paleoanthropology appears to be not that we have underestimated the cranial capacities and, therefore, the evolution of early human crania, but that we may have overestimated.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/whatshot/1998/wh1998-1.html (554 words)

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		For two decades after this discovery, almost no one in the scientific community believed Dart's claim that the skull came from an ancestral human.
		According to other scientists, however, A. africanus had facial features that mark it on the path to the robust australopiths found later in the same region.
		Some recent finds from the Transvaal site of Sterkfontein indeed have begun to blur the distinction between the early australopiths and the later robust species.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/faq/Encarta/australopiths.htm (2014 words)

	World
		The discovery at Sterkfontein of the first complete skeleton of a human ancestor more than 3 million years old, reinforces Africa's status as the cradle of humankind.
		It was discovered at Sterkfontein on the outskirts of Johannesburg, which was also the site of the discovery of South Africa's first hominid, or "ape-man," skull in 1924.
		Following up on the find, Clarke and his team discovered the remaining bones in university cupboards and by revisiting the cave in Sterkfontein where the ankle and foot bones were found.
	www.geocities.com /shilohretreat/world.htm (629 words)

	Cradle of Humankind Travel Guide
		You can do a tour of the Sterkfontein Caves, where there is a small interpretive museum, but you'll get more out of a visit here if you take a dedicated tour with a knowledgeable guide who can tell you about the various discoveries.
		OK - to be perfectly honest, it's unlikely that these hominids lived only in the Sterkfontein area - they probably ranged all over southern Africa but, in order for fossils to be preserved, they need to die under ideal conditions - ideal conditions for fossil formation, not ideal conditions for life, obviously.
		But, even if you're not particularly interested in visiting the place where our ancestors hung out, the Cradle of Humankind is a great place to visit and it is close to Pretoria and Johannesburg.
	www.safarinow.com /cms/cradle-of-humankind-gauteng-south-africa/irie.aspx (585 words)

	:: STERKFONTEIN'S OLD BONES ::
		Some believe that Little Foot is the most significant hominid find since Raymond Dart's discovery of the skull of the Taung child, a juvenile Australopithecus africanus, discovered in 1924 near a town called Taung in the far north of the North West Province.
		Sterkfontein also made world headlines in December 1998 when Clarke found an almost complete hominid skeleton in the cave, dating back 3.5-million years.
		A complete skull and fragments of arm, foot and leg bones have been uncovered so far; the rest of the bones are still being painstakingly dug from the rock.
	www.joburg.org.za /sep_2002/cradle.stm (1114 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Major hominid find in southern Africa
		Sterkfontein is probably the richest site on Earth for the fossils of early humans (hominids), and the ancient cave system is now part of a World Heritage Site.
		A statement from the University said the new discoveries were about 200,000 years older than the "Little Foot" hominid, whose four foot bones were pulled out of the limestone caves in 1996.
		Scientists hope the Sterkfontein and East Africa finds will shed light on our lineage and provide clues to why and when we split off from the common ancestor we are thought to share with apes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1544717.stm (391 words)

	Sterkfontein Caves
		The Sterkfontein Caves are located just north of Krugersdorp and Johannesburg, South Africa. ; They consist of many limestone formations and an underground lake which are ideal for preservation.
		Ron Clark was part of a team excavating the Sterkfontein Caves lead by Professor Phillip Tobias of South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand. ; Dr. Ron Clark found the four tiny foot bones in 1994 and he also found the tibia and the skull.
		Another discovery at Sterkfontein is the skull of a so-called Taung child in 1924. This was the first fossil to be found that belonged to the genus Australopithecus which would have never been possible if not for the discovery in 1895 of the bone-bearing breccias.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/sterkfonteincaves.html (216 words)

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		Peter and I were both very interested in going to the Sterkfontein Caves after a previous visit to the Transvaal Museum where we saw a replica of the famous Mrs.
		The most famous of the caves is the Sterkfontein Cave where Dr Robert Broom found the virtually complete cranium of and early, ape-like australopithecine creature in 1947.
		It was interesting for me to read that the Sterkfontein caves were first brought to international attention in about 1895 by the Englishman Hans Paul Thomasset, the godson of Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Anderson.
	members.fortunecity.com /buddiesviawia/myworldviawia/id19.html (1284 words)

	Welcome to South Africa
		Caves attract thousands of visitors each year due to the fact that they hold vital clues to the lineage of mankind.
		STERKFONTEIN - A handful of the world's great cities trace their heritage to early human settlements thousands of years back.
		It was at Sterkfontein that two major finds were made that have changed modern paleontology.
	www.southafrica.net /index.cfm?SitePageID=8632 (384 words)

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