Less than 100,000 years ago, this group split into new lineages. One group gave rise to many of today’s East African tribes. Another group included the Mota man.

African pottery dates back thousands of years, with artifacts discovered in archaeological sites across the continent. These ...

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MURRAY WHYTE ‘Ancient Nubia Now’ corrects the record on the MFA’s African art collection George Reisner gave the MFA the best collection of Nubian objects in the world.

Scientists have way more DNA from ancient Europeans than Africans. Now analysis of a genome from nearly 20,000 years ago is answering questions about the continent’s past.

Artifacts indicate that humans have occupied Shum Laka on and off for at least 30,000 years, and there are skeletons that date back thousands of years. The research team behind the new work tried ...