Southern Africa, with its diverse ecosystems, has appealed to Moon for a while. While working on her 2014 book Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time, Moon spent time in Madagascar photographing baobab ...

the Thune Dam area in Botswana (three sites); the Metolong Dam catchment of Lesotho (five sites); and the Maclear District of South Africa (six sites). Ancient rock art can be harmed by the ...

The story begins more than a thousand years ago, when the city of Kilwa was the richest trading center on the eastern coast of Africa. [In Photos: Amazing Ruins of the Ancient World] A bustling ...

Four ancient youngsters, one pair from around 8,000 years ago and another from about 3,000 years ago, have opened a window on humankind’s far older, far-flung African origins. Analyses of the ...

More than 400 human footprints preserved in hardened volcanic sediment are providing a rare peek at social life among ancient East African hunter-gatherers. These impressions, found in northern ...

Researchers need ancient DNA from archaeological human remains to explore human diversity in different places and times and to understand what factors shaped it. Unfortunately, aDNA from Africa is ...

The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago was up to twice as significant as ...

A view from Mota Cave in Ethiopia, where archaeologists found the remains of a 4,500-year-old human. Kathryn and John Arthur An ancient skeleton found face down in an Ethiopian cave has enabled ...