The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid period more ...

A rchaeological data shed light on the transition of ancient North African populations from hunter-gatherers to producers, between 20,000 and 4,000 years ago. Following the sequencing of a genome ...

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have ... first clear genetic evidence of contact between early European and North African populations, indicating that Stone Age European hunter-gatherers ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana would have started in North Africa in Tahert, sweeping down through Sijilimasa in Southern ...

although archaeological finds have hinted at cultural exchange between European and North African hunter-gatherers. Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped the emergence of agriculture in ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...