FormationDeep prehistory

Formation in deep prehistory

One event in the Terralore archive falls in deep prehistory, tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
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Nations
1
Earliest
100,000 BCE
Latest
100,000 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Deep prehistoryAfrica

    South Africa

    The Cradle of Humankind

    The Sterkfontein and Swartkrans caves preserve hominin fossils spanning millions of years, including Mrs Ples and Little Foot, marking southern Africa as a key site of human origins; the area was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999.

    Era: Early peoples: San, Khoekhoe and the Bantu-speaking kingdoms

    Sources: Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, South Africa (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cradle of Humankind · South African History Online