Maropeng Visitor Centre Conference Venue in Krugersdorp, West Rand

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Maropeng Conference Venues South Africa R400, just off the R563 Hekpoort road Krugersdorp Gauteng South Africa

Welcome to Maropeng and the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Maropeng means “returning to the place of origin” in Setswana, the main indigenous language in this area of South Africa. The Cradle of Humankind is an easy drive of about an hour from Johannesburg or Pretoria. Our ancestors have lived in this area for more than 3-million years. By coming here, you are coming to the birthplace of humanity. Welcome home!

The Maropeng Visitor Centre is an exciting, world-class exhibition, focusing on the development of humans and our ancestors over the past few million years. On arrival, you will see a massive burial mound called the Tumulus, which is your entrance to learning the secrets of our ancestry.

Along the pathway to the Tumulus building, stop to have a look at the site of an archaeological excavation. The Stone Age site has been excavated since October 2005 by scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand. The early stone tools found here belong to the Acheulean period and include handaxes and cleavers. 

Early humans and their ancestors came to the Maropeng area to use the local rocks for tool-making as they pursued a hunter-gatherer way of life. The technology of these tools suggests they were made sometime between 1.0 and 0.5 million years ago during the Earlier Stone Age, prior to the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.

These stone tools are periodically on display in the Maropeng Original Fossil Area. Please ask a guide about this display area as the original fossils on display change regularly. 

Pause, too, to read some of the messages about our past engraved on rocks as you walk up to the entrance. They include, among others:

• The universe was formed about 14-billion years ago. The Earth is about 4.6-billion years old.
• Life first emerged about 3.8-billion years ago. Our journey begins in South Africa, where fossils of some of the earliest known life forms on Earth have been found.
• All of humanity shares an African heritage. We are one, diverse species across the globe, with our roots in Africa.

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