| 2006 Gold 1/4oz R2 Cradle of Human Kind Heritage Series |
| The Cradle of Humankind, in the Magaliesberg region of the Gauteng and Noth West provinces of South Africa, is home to the Sterkfontein caves wich is one of the richest and most productive paleao-anthropological homonid fossil sites in the world. It has yielded some of the most valuable and oldest evidence of the origins of humankind ever found, including the 2-million-year-old Mrs Ples, the first complete skull of the Australopithecus genus to be discovered by paleaontologists Dr Robert Broom and John Robinson. In 1997 Professor Ron Clarke excavated a full complete skeleton of an Australopithecus. |
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