By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.
A scientific paper, published in the journal Science Advances, describes a spectacular event that happened about 9,500 years ...
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Stone Age tools found in Central African cave were remarkably stable for 5,000 years
New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of more than 5,000 years. While the results suggest considerable similarity ...
DNA analysis has revealed that Stone Age people from North Africa descended partly from European hunter-gatherers. This shows that early people not only came out of Africa but, much later, some ...
The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new ...
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the ...
Funding: Agence National des Bourses du Gabon Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
The Pahon Cave in Gabon offers archaeologists a well-preserved look into the Late Stone Age time period in central Africa, thanks to the stratified layers of guano-based sediment. This is in contrast ...
The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today's world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...
A rarely-visited World Heritage Site in Malawi has received a boost to its conservation and tourism potential.
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