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 ...

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

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, ...