Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first humans. ... Previous studies have leaned on evidence of dust deposits in ...

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.. This is the ...

The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in search ...