'They Still Live' project encourages people to question and discover who they are. The project combines photography, DNA testing, maps and African art. Based around Paul Hamilton's extensive ...

M. Lipson et al. Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history. Nature. Published online January 22, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-1929-1. About Bruce Bower.

Step by step. In this illustrated map of ancient human footprints preserved at the Engare Sero site, 17 tracks heading southwest may have been made by a group of mostly women foraging for food.

The ancient-genomics revolution is finally reaching the cradle of humanity: Africa. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of four children who lived in what is now Cameroon several thousand years ...

Inset map underscores the gap between Africa and other parts of the world in terms of published ancient genomes. Ancient DNA preserved between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn is rare. Mary ...

For the first time, scientists analyzed the ancient genetics of four individuals from the Shum Laka rock shelter in western Cameroon. The samples came from two burials at the site, one roughly ...

A generalised map of the Sahara shows the location of the sample sites and the fossilised river courses (Credit: Univeristy of Bristol) The first humans to leave Africa didn't have to struggle ...