Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African ... developed by Ice Age humans approximately 20,000 years ago. ... is now the coast of South Africa was several ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

After early humans traveled out of Africa 70,000 years ago, they had a "hub" on the so-called Persian plateau, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape Guy Plint, Western University and Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University Mon ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than 370 vertebrate tracksites on South Africa’s southern coast.

That roughly coincides with when other human lineages spread beyond the continent and into the Middle East, Europe and Asia – becoming the ancestors of all people outside Africa. "The Takarkori ...