Although the African Rift Valley running down the east side of the continent is often celebrated as the focus of hominin ...

One of these fossil hotspots is the eastern branch of the East African Rift System, home to important fossil sites such as Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania.

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago. The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...

In the East African Rift Valley, there is a sedimentary basin called Olorgesailie. For 700,000 years, the early humans living there used stone hand axes. These large, clunky, oval tools were the ...

This race is especially urgent in the East African Rift Valley in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, where fossils of Australopithecus afarensis, Ardipithecus ramidus, and the oldest known ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones ...

“At the East African rift zone, we have a present-day example of how a large hot upwelling mantle plume that originates at these deep mantle blobs starts to break up a continent,” Cottaar says.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes ...

Fossil hotspots in Africa obscure a more complete picture of human evolution Date: August 20, 2024 Source: George Washington University Summary: A new study shows how the mismatch between where ...