Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation ... Cheikh Anta Diop argues that: As humankind began in East Africa it was likely that people were black skinned. People populated other continents by ...

By looking at ancient DNA discovered in Africa, the team was able to determine several things. First, people changed how they moved and interacted around the time of the Later Stone Age transition.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

As an Africanist archaeologist, I specialize in the study of ancient societies across Mediterranean Africa and the Sahara ...

"This makes this the richest site for fossil hominins on the continent of Africa and makes naledi one of the best-known ancient hominin species ever discovered." The discovery of Leti was made in ...

In both ancient and modern contexts, visibility plays a key role in how people position themselves ... But this method is still underutilized in Africa. It has only recently been taken up and ...