Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

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

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...