Malawi, the cradle of mankind?

The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi’s isolated northern district of Karonga gives further proof that the area could be the cradle of humankind, a chief German researcher said.Professor Friedemann Schrenk of the Goethe University in Frankfurt informed Reuters that two students working on the excavation site last month had discovered prehistoric tools and a tooth of a hominid.

“This latest discovery of prehistoric tools and remains of hominids gives an additional proof to the hypothesis that the Great Rift Valley of Africa and perhaps the excavation site near Karonga can be considered the cradle of humankind,” Schrenk said.
A hominid is a member of a family of primates which consist of humans and their prehistoric ancestors.The finding was at Malema excavation site, 10 km (6 miles) from Karonga.
The site also holds some of the earliest dinosaurs which lived between 100 million and 140 million years ago and early hominids were supposed to have lived between a million and 6 million years ago.