But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...
For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...
Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided ...
However, evidence collected from Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa provides a different story. Tools collected from the site showcased that humans were living in the rainforests of the region for ...
"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...
New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand years ago ...
Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...
New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...
A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ago, some of them lived deep in a West African rainforest. “What we’re seeing is that, from a very early stage, ecological ...
(Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human ...
Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...
New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand years ago ...