Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

His plans to search for early human remains in Africa had met with skepticism. “There’s nothing of significance to be found there,” he recalled being told by a Cambridge professor.

But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using animal bones – one million years earlier than researchers previously thought. The finding ...

That stability, however, was disrupted when early farming groups from southwestern Europe ... from sub-Saharan populations at ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

In comparison to ancient humans found outside of Africa from 7,000 years ago ... As for how this changes the story of early human history, the study published in the journal Nature contended ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to ...