University of Tübingen-led international research team investigates how our ancestors used the best material to make stone tools
New insights into the genetic history of Bantu in Africa; it started in West Africa about 5,000 years ago, mainly driven by human migration
There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes, Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent
Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections among people living in the region
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration
Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates
