KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to ...

Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Argentina, South America. Between 50,000 to 10,000 years ago modern humans reached all continents. Past studies hypothesized that early humans ...

In 1840, there were less than 400 African-Americans living in Madison, Wis. Some arrived as slaves to fur trappers, others came to work in the mines. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act caused many to ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --The extraction and analysis of milk-specific proteins from ancient materials, including dental calculus, has allowed scientists to uncover the origins of dairying in Eastern Africa.

Dating early human middens becomes uncertain beyond 50,000 years, when radiocarbon dating ceases to be useful. Uranium-series dating of marine shells and bone is uncertain by some 10% because of the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet ...

Early Muslim communities in Africa ate a cosmopolitan diet as the region became a trading centre for luxury goods, the discovery of thousands of ancient animal bones has shown. Early Muslim ...