New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Humans were living in tropical rainforests tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. The earliest evidence of humans living in such forests in Africa, ...

In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human evolutionary history.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 ... suited for cutting fibrous plants and other tropical forest resources. In 2020, archaeologist and ...

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years ...

Located In eastern Sierra Leone, covering 70,000 hectares lies Gola Rainforest National Park (GRNP), one of the last ...

Most of us, as early as in our school days, learnt about the Amazon being the largest rainforest in the world. But there's another forest, about the size of Mexico, in Africa, covered with tropical ...

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a new study in Nature by researchers at the University of Sheffield. The ...

(Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human ...