Africa Archive
Human Beginnings
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scattered throughout the Namib Desert is a significant collection of stone tools, largely unrecognized due to challenging access conditions. The region has scarce roads
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Recent fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered evidence of the earliest known farming society from a previously poorly understood period of northwest African prehistory. This
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you haven't seen these remarkable ancient figures before, prepare yourself for a surprise. Credit: Thierry Joffroy - CRA-terre Hidden in the dense
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com - Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco.
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Cattle may seem like uniquely American animals, steeped in the lore of cowboys, cattle drives, and sprawling ranches. However, scientists have found evidence
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com -There is a mysterious ancient city of Djado located on the southern border of the Djado plateau in northeastern Niger. Once, there were several
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something as simple as a grass can fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. Studies published in the journal Science document the
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A University of South Florida anthropologist has uncovered the first ancient DNA from the Swahili Civilization, which included prosperous trading states along the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - Ancientpages.com - Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The so-called Nomoli figures were found in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Nomoli are mysterious stone figures from 2,500 years to approximately 15,000
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have made an important discovery in the Kingdom of Aksum, a major ancient power in Northeastern Africa, identifying two churches from shortly
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the world – from the icesheets to the deserts, rainforests to savannahs. As individuals
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia's fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human. "The tooth was discovered near the village of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than
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DNA
AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first detailed academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding techniques but the continuing use of wooden vessels by
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Historic graffiti of ships carved in an African fort were drawn by soldiers on guard duty watching the sea, University of Exeter experts believe.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many legends surround the mysterious Kingdom of Garamantes, which was once situated in the oases of Fezzan, Libya. This indigenous Saharan society had
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered North Africa's oldest Stone Age hand-axe dating back 1.3-million years. The find made during excavations at a quarry on the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No matter what place or time, people have always studied the stars and other celestial objects. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of years old
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze - a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 thousand years ago, where their fossils are found with the earliest cultural and technological expressions of our
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We read about historical places and events without thinking about what’s behind a name. For example, we can ask - Why is Africa
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The golden stool is sacred to the Ashanti people. It is a traditional symbol of leadership and a holy object that holds the
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