- Deep prehistory — 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
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
- 1
- 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.