Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s more recent history. An archaeologist explains ...

Key takeaways: Africa and archaeology Big gaps exist in the history of Africa at the time permanent settlements were forming elsewhere around the globe. Advances in East African archaeology document ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, the story of humans in Africa doesn’t end with their migration away from the mother continent. After all, many stayed ...

This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the ...

IT IS less than three quarters of a century since Europe’s Congress of Berlin agreed upon a colonial share-out in Africa that was intended to be long enduring, if not permanent. It is less than half a ...

Microscopic specs of lead are offering clues about the enormous cultural changes that swept across northern Africa a thousand years ago. At The University of Arizona in Tucson, a young archaeologist ...

Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007. Reviewed by Chapurukha M. Kusimba in Journal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Africa (1722). Original from The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Wikipedia Commons, ...

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to ...

East Africa is home to many important archaeological sites that were settled in the Holocene Era, a handful of which are shown in the above map. The landmass known in the post-colonial period as ...

Microscopic specs of lead are offering clues about the enormous cultural changes that swept across northern Africa a thousand years ago, according to new research to be presented at the March 2006 ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Big gaps exist in the ...