For decades, scientists who studied early modern humans believed that our ancestors initially inhabited only small areas of Africa, the savannas of the eastern and southern part of the continent ...

Second, West Africa was then not considered a major ... site allowed her to address two hypotheses. Read More: How Early Humans Adapted to Harsh Desert Climates Over a Million Years Ago Two ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

West Africa, is debunking that theory in what could be a major archaeology breakthrough. According to a statement released by the Max Plank Institute of Geoanthropology, early humans in fact ...

These findings suggest that somewhere in Africa, early modern humans developed this mutation, which then spread rapidly across populations, enabling the foundation of human speech. The fact that ...

Early humans saw the animals they lived with on the African savannahs as a hazard or competitors. Scientists believe humans were "preys to cats and large birds". And humans would have to compete ...

“We may be missing a whole world of tools made by early humans,” he said. Dr. de la Torre has spent years exploring Tanzania, in East Africa, to investigate the early stages of human tool-makin ...

The spheres, made from volcanic basalt and lapilli, were discovered across eight archaeological sites in Melka Kunture, dated ...