More than 400 human footprints preserved in hardened volcanic sediment are providing a rare peek at social life among ancient East African hunter-gatherers. These impressions, found in northern ...

Elizabeth Sawchuk receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Jessica Thompson has received funding from the Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society, ...

We dive deep into a 1935 map of Africa, a relic that captures a pivotal moment in the continent's history. Join us as we explore the map’s significance, uncovering the changes and challenges that have ...

George Busby receives funding from Wellcome, the Medical Research Council, Oxford University and The Royal Geographical Society. One of the more startling discoveries arising from genomic sequencing ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from an extinct human species unearthed in Israel suggests that ancient humans may have migrated from Africa in multiple waves, a new study finds. Scientists had ...