Tags: World Heritage Site.
The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999 about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg South Africa in the Gauteng province. This site currently occupies 47000 hectares (180 sq mi); it contains a complex of limestone caves including the Sterkfontein Caves where the 2.3-million year-old fossil Australopithecus africanus (nicknamed Mrs. Ples) was found in 1947 by Dr. Robert Broom and John T. Robinson.
