New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...

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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

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 ...

Tropical rainforests appeared to be the toughest ... But in 2018, Dr. Scerri and her colleagues challenged the idea that East African grasslands were the single cradle of humanity.