Name: Little Foot: Exploring Our Origins
Uploaded: 2019-01-01
Duration: 19 min 52 s
Description: One of the oldest known hominins in southern Africa. An almost complete skeleton dates back more than three million years. Found in 1994 in the Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg in South Africa, which form part of the “Cradle of Humankind”.

One of the oldest known hominins in southern Africa. An almost complete skeleton dates back more than three million years. Found in 1994 in the Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg in South Africa, which form part of the “Cradle of Humankind”.

Examine Little Foot, an almost complete hominin skeleton more than three million years old, discovered in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves. This episode follows the painstaking excavation and the clues her bones preserve about upright walking, tree climbing, and life in the Cradle of Humankind. Sign up to see how one extraordinary fossil deepens our understanding of human origins.

An ancient skeleton emerges from stone to rewrite our earliest story.

Little Foot: Exploring Our Origins

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