Chemical traces on 60,000-year-old stone arrowheads from South Africa suggest ancient hunters used plant poison.

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

The recent unearthing of ancient African beads has shed new light on the extensive trading systems that existed some 4,000 years ago. These discoveries have expanded our knowledge of international ...

Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic breakthroughs are finally pulling back the curtain on migrations and “ghost ...

Oakhurst rock shelter is an archaeological site near the town of George on the southern coast of South Africa. It is set into a sandstone cliff above a stream in a valley forested by towering old ...

African typographers are on a mission to preserve and revive ancient scripts, which are an important part of the continent's ...