Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Big gaps exist in the ...

The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...

Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 and 1.6 million years old.

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IT IS less than three quarters of a century since Europe’s Congress of Berlin agreed upon a colonial share-out in Africa that was intended to be long enduring, if not permanent. It is less than half a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics. Werner ...

This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the ...

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to ...

This field synthesises findings from diverse regions, revealing the complex trajectories of cultural evolution and human adaptation. In Asia, archaeological investigations using remote sensing, LiDAR ...

Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007. Reviewed by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Journal of ...