One of the most significant archaeological finding was reported to be in 2008, when a 9 year old boy named Matthew Berger found a set of 2 million year old fossils outside of a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa.

It is reported that the boy was with his father, who is a paleoanthropologist by profession in U. S, out on a trip to the caves. While onsite, Berger's father instructed the boy to look for fossils outside of the cave.

It is reported to be a new hominid species called Australopithecus sediba. The fossil were the bones of a four-foot, two-inch hominid boy.

Dr. Berger comments on his first reaction to his son's discovery in the April 8, 2010 The New York Times article "New Hominid Species Discovered in South Africa", "I couldn't believe it. I took the rock, and I turned it .

sticking out of the back of the rock was a mandible with a tooth, a canine, sticking out. And I almost died.. What are the odds?". After the initial discover, Berger and fellow collaborators have reportedly discovered more bones of the boy, including a well-preserved skull, in addition to the bones of three other hominids.