You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

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

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

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...

Over three floors, MoAD presents an African diaspora “unbound” from earthly and chronological conceptions of diaspora.

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...