The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Gedi is another ...