Water—or the absence of it—has shaped life, culture, and survival in the Karoo and Kalahari for centuries. From ancient myths to modern struggles, the search for this precious resource weaves through ...

For many years now there has been a debate about whether the ancient peoples ... there were theories that Africa was inhabited much later than Asia and that the people occupying Africa today ...

The lost world in which ancient humans lived has excited and ... while exploring a remote South African cave, happened upon the remains of Homo naledi. This extinct hominin species, which ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Visibility has always been important in people's ... transmission in African societies. Recently I published a study of 19th century settlements in the Magaliesberg region in South Africa, using ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...