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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have reconstructed ancient human genomes from southernmost ...

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. Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds of millennia — preserving rare genetic variants that still exist today. A ...

Advances in studying ancient DNA from prehistoric remains provides us with new insight into the life of our African ancestors and the emergence of the modern human. Humans all share a common African ...

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 ...

Throughout the long centuries of history, the ancient city of Anfa survived foreign conquests. The coastal town known now as ...

"The principal author is Marc Epprecht"--P. xi. "Based on Marc Epprecht's monograph, Hungochani: the history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa"--P. 4 of cover. Sexuality in ancient African ...

UCLA historian Ehret (The Civilizations of Africa) delivers a comprehensive and stimulating look at the major transitions in African history and their significance for the global development of early ...