KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to ...

The traditional origin story for modern humans says that early groups migrated out of Africa 60,000 years ago. Most non-Africans can trace their origin to those migrations, but new evidence suggests ...

Dating early human middens becomes uncertain beyond 50,000 years, when radiocarbon dating ceases to be useful. Uranium-series dating of marine shells and bone is uncertain by some 10% because of the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --The extraction and analysis of milk-specific proteins from ancient materials, including dental calculus, has allowed scientists to uncover the origins of dairying in Eastern Africa.

Early Muslim communities in Africa ate a cosmopolitan diet as the region became a trading centre for luxury goods, the discovery of thousands of ancient animal bones has shown. Early Muslim ...