Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

A team member had spotted large teeth protruding from ... Researchers uncovered the nearly complete skull of an ancient apex ...

I used this research to identify the various groups, large and small ... a Stone Age ancestor in Africa by following the trails of a nickname that survived in my ancient West African ancestors ...

Although ancient-DNA research has revealed insights into the population histories of many areas of the world, delving into the deep ancestry of African groups has not been possible until recently ...

We know that the ancient humans and Neanderthals — a human cousin that had already successfully taken hold outside of Africa — were getting it on regularly somewhere around 65,000 years ago ...

More than 400 human footprints preserved in hardened volcanic sediment are providing a rare peek at social life among ancient East African hunter ... In this illustrated map of ancient human ...

The East African man’s genome, the first map of ancient human DNA from Africa, helped to determine that a population closely related to Europe’s first farmers made major inroads in Africa ...

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in ... early hominins impacted ancient African faunas, there have been ...

Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered a large cache of rare stone inscriptions ... The collection of funerary texts are inscribed in Meroitic, one of Africa's earliest written languages.

Samples of ancient DNA recovered by University of Bristol scientists on two Indian Ocean islands have helped in the first large scale study of ancient human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa. Africa has ...