A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Three massive genetic studies draw a new map of ancient human migrations. ... a small number of ancient humans left Africa — which show up around 40,000 to 60,000 years ago as a huge reduction ...

Step by step. In this illustrated map of ancient human footprints preserved at the Engare Sero site, 17 tracks heading southwest may have been made by a group of mostly women foraging for food.

The first large-scale study of ancient human genomes from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identities of prehistoric populations in that part of the world, providing new ...

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, the ...

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 ...

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers ...

Geneticists at Oxford University, University College London and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany had published a report, "A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture ...

Large Cache of Texts May Offer Insight Into One of Africa’s Oldest Written Languages Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions to date ...

A skull discovered in the Egyptian desert belongs to a never-before-seen apex predator that roamed parts of North Africa and ...

A section of the Appalachian Mountains discovered in Mexico is forcing scientists to redraw their maps of ancient Earth. The Appalachians are a series of mountain ranges in eastern North America ...