The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

Experiments show that lightning strikes can trigger the synthesis of basic organic molecules needed by living organisms.

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

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The international study, published in Science, analyzed 87 complete genomes from both ancient and modern felines to map how cats spread geographically over millennia. The earliest domestic cat DNA in ...