This work provides a short overview of the most important and most studied locations of fossil hominids, outlining the main accompanying natural and cultural data. The first part gives a morphological description of the fossil remains of African hominids that lived in the interval from 7 to 1 million years ago, belonging to the group of Australopithecines. This chronological segment was divided into three stages, reflecting the main points of the evolution of Australopithecus. The second part contains a description of locations containing hominid remains known as "early Homo"; the main taxonomically valuable morphological features of hominids transitioning from Australopithecus to late hominids are considered.