Here’s what scientists know about the life form and why it could change their understanding of desert ecosystems.

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

The world has many mysterious places, but underneath the earth's crust can be just as mysterious. Miles beneath the African ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure ...