Tens of thousands of years ago, humans sought refuge from the elements in a rocky hollow near the crook of Africa’s western coast. They crafted stone tools, ate fresh kills or gathered plants, and ...

A team of international researchers, which includes a Saint Louis University Madrid anthropologist, dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature.

Stretching over 4,200 kilometers, the Niger River sustains millions of people across West Africa. Flowing through rainforest, ...

Four ancient youngsters, one pair from around 8,000 years ago and another from about 3,000 years ago, have opened a window on humankind’s far older, far-flung African origins. Analyses of the ...

During the Stone Age in what is now western Cameroon, four children who perished before their prime were buried in a natural rock shelter. Now, thousands of years later, an analysis of the ancient DNA ...

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...

Researchers created an interactive map which lets users see how the ancient network crisscrossed the Empire, from Africa and ...

From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years. By Carl Zimmer In October 2015, scientists reconstructed the genome of a ...

An international team led by Harvard Medical School scientists has produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central Africa. The data, recovered from four individuals ...

Scientists have produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central Africa. An international team led by Harvard Medical School scientists has produced the first ...