Smithsonian Report, 1955. — Dart 



Plate 1 



Tlic iiiuriur of the main cavern of the Limevvorks site in Makapansgat Valley near Potgie- 

 tersrust in the Central Transvaal has been stripped of its stalagmites and stalactites by the 

 limeworkers. From the dumps deposited on the hill slope outside and from strata remain- 

 ing inside this cavern liave been rcco\'ered most of the evidence discussed in this paper 

 about the transition from ape to man. (Photo by J. P. Vorstcr.) 





2. Part of the ],i;. ,. : ,; .; ill slope oulsidi ihc iiiaiii r:ivcrn, from which the 



remains of the Suutii Alncan nunhkc aj^c Australopithecus ■promelhcus and tiie accompany- 

 ing types of extinct creatures have been recovered since 1947. (Photo by Alun R. Hughes.) 



