I'm sitting in the courtyard of a mud-walled compound in a village in central Mali ... by the elders and died suddenly after stealing ancient artifacts from a cave and selling them to a dealer.

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Ancient artifacts ... Aurignacian artifacts such as spear points made of antler (Figure 3). However, although fossil and genetic data are consistent with an African origin for our species, the ...

A recent study by Dr. Ignacio Montero-Ruiz and his colleagues examined the provenance of ancient copper artifacts discovered on the Island of Ibo off Mozambique's coast. The study, published in Azania ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...

Dr Savino di Lernia, the study’s senior author, adds, “the study highlights the importance of ancient DNA for reconstructing human history in regions like Central Northern Africa, providing ...

Therefore, the older an archaeological site, the less likely it is to have surviving organic artifacts. It has long been suggested that the material culture recovered from ancient archaeological ...