Africa Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bantu Expansion transformed sub-Saharan Africa's linguistic, economic, and cultural composition. Today, more than 240 million people speak one of the more than

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first detailed academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding techniques but the continuing use of wooden vessels by

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered North Africa's oldest Stone Age hand-axe dating back 1.3-million years. The find made during excavations at a quarry on the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze - a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African ‘homeland’ and thrived there for 70 thousand years,

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting, and little-known stories told by African tribes. Africa was once home to several powerful civilizations, but sadly today, the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors studied the stars and other celestial objects with great interest. They observed the movements of the Moon, the Sun and the stars

AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The

AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence people in Sahara were familiar with glass technology centuries before the arrival of Europeans. During excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The puzzling knowledge of the Dogon tribe remains a great ancient mystery that raises a number of thought-provoking questions. About 5,000 years ago, something

AncientPages.com -  A team of researchers led by Professor David Mattingly, of the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, is investigating a lost civilization in