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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa' has mentioned 'Fossil' in the following places:
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| Fossil Hominid Sites of South AfricaUNESCO World Heritage SiteCradle of HumankindLocationSouth AfricaCriteriaCultural: iii, viReference915Inscription1999 (23rd session)Extensions2015 | WIKI |
| The registered name of the site in the list of World Heritage sites is Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa. | WIKI |
| According to existing archaeological and fossil evidence, however, the Cradle of Humankind (originally known as Cradle of Mankind) is the Afar Triangle in East Africa, which is often referred to as the Cradle of Humanity. | WIKI |
| The Sterkfontein Caves were the site of the discovery of a 2.3-million-year-old fossil Australopithecus africanus (nicknamed "Mrs. Ples"), found in 1947 by Robert Broom and John T. Robinson. | WIKI |
| Nearby, but not in the site, the Rising Star Cave system contains the Dinaledi Chamber (chamber of stars), in which were discovered fifteen fossil skeletons of an extinct species of hominin, provisionally named Homo naledi. | WIKI |
| In 1948, the Camp-Peabody Expedition from the United States worked at Bolts Farm and Gladysvale looking for fossil hominids but failed to find any. | WIKI |
| In 1966, Phillip Tobias began his excavations of Sterkfontein which are still continuing and are the longest continuously running fossil excavations in the world. | WIKI |
| In 1994, Andre Keyser discovered fossil hominids at the site of Drimolen. | WIKI |
| In 1997, Kevin Kuykendall and Colin Menter of the University of the Witwatersrand found two fossil hominid teeth at the site of Gondolin. | WIKI |
| In 2008, Lee Berger discovered the partial remains of two hominids (Australopithecus sediba) in the Malapa Fossil Site that lived between 1.78 and 1.95xc2xa0million years ago. | WIKI |
| In October 2013, Berger commissioned geologist Pedro Boshoff to investigate cave systems in the Cradle of Humankind for the express purpose of discovering more fossil hominin sites. | WIKI |
| In just three weeks of excavation, the six-woman international team of advance speleological scientists (K. Lindsay Eaves, Marina Elliott, Elen Feuerriegel, Alia Gurtov, Hannah Morris, and Becca Peixotto), chosen for their paleoanthropological and caving skills, as well as their small size, recovered over 1,200 specimens of a presently unidentified fossil hominin species. | WIKI |
| [15][16] In the last days of the Rising Star Expedition, cavers Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker discovered additional fossil hominid material in another portion of the cave system. | WIKI |
| Preliminary excavations at this site, designated UW-102, have begun and yielded complete hominid fossil material of its own. | WIKI |
| The undulating landscape containing the fossil hominid sites of South Africa comprises dolomitic limestone ridges with rocky outcrops and valley grasslands, wooded along watercourses and in areas of natural springs. | UNESCO |
| The serial listing includes the Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs, and the Makapan Valley and Taung Skull Fossil Site. | UNESCO |
| Alongside and predating the hominid period of occupation is a sequence of fossil mammals, micro-mammals and invertebrates which provide a window onto faunal evolution, palaeobiology and palaeoecology stretching back into the Pliocene. | UNESCO |
| The fossil evidence contained within these sites proves conclusively that the African continent is the undisputed Cradle of Humankind. | UNESCO |
| The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs together with Makapan Valley and Taung Skull Fossil Site comprise five separate components situated in different provinces and each has a buffer zone. | UNESCO |
| The components of the Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs together with Makapan Valley and Taung Skull Fossil Site are currently protected as National Heritage sitesxc2xa0 in terms of the National Heritage Resources Act, 1999 (Act No. | UNESCO |