The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), which owns the site, is credited with many of the famous discoveries including the world famous “Mrs Ples” and “Little Foot” - an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton dating back more than three million years.
Pictures: Sterkfontein Caves, Maropeng
File photo: Sterkfontein Caves Proff Phillip Tobias takes Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka on a tour of the newly opened Huminoid exhibition in the new ficility named in his honour. Picture: Steve Lawrence
Tourists enter the Sterkfontein Caves. The caves are the best-known of a dozen sites in the area where a wealth of important fossils and stone tools have been found.
The caves are the best-known of a dozen sites in the area where a wealth of important fossils and stone tools have been found.
Published Oct 23, 2012
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