You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...
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The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.
A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...
South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin and the Virginia Gas Project supply a rare element vital for MRI scanners; estimates ...
Ancient DNA from 28 individuals south of the Limpopo reveals a long-isolated population stretching from 10,200 years ago to ...
Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest arrow poison on 60,000-year-old tools in South Africa, revealing early human ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...