Searching for new pieces of the Cradle of Humankind in Southern Africa: HON and HOMME research programs

Laurent Bruxelles (1, 2, 3) , Dominic Justin Stratford (3) , Amélie Beaudet (4) , Bastien Chadelle (2) , Grégory Dandurand (1, 2) , Francis Duranthon (5) , Jean-Baptiste Fourvel (6) , Marc Jarry (1, 2) , Marcelino Moiana (7) , Clément Zanolli (8)

1 Inrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives
2 TRACES - Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés
3 WITS - University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg]
4 University of the Witwaterstrand
5 Muséum de Toulouse
6 LAMPEA - Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique
7 Museum of Geology of Mozambique
8 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie

We present here the results of on-going research programs in Southern Africa about Homo genus appearance. This opens broad perspectives of research as whole Africa can be now considered as the cradle of Humankind based on a geological and geomorphological approaches. Looking for potential fossil traps in karstic areas provide some interesting results supporting this statement.

Domaines: Paléontologie; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Laurent Bruxelles, Dominic Justin Stratford, Amélie Beaudet, Bastien Chadelle, Grégory Dandurand, et al.. Searching for new pieces of the Cradle of Humankind in Southern Africa: HON and HOMME research programs. Proceedings of the European Society for Human Evolution, Sep 2020, online, Germany. ⟨hal-03003783⟩