For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone ...

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

A study has found that what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Image: Monument to Ushikawa man. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...

W hen the Paleolithic Period dawned, at least one group from which humanity may have descended had a diet that would infuriate most people who think they’re “eating Paleo ”. In fact, a group of ...

At the end of 2024 South African poet Ingrid de Kok published Unleaving, a significant collection of substantial new poems.

Discover some of the oldest remnants left by archaic humans: stone tools, art objects, cave paintings, and skeletons that have revolutionised our understanding of Neanderthals and our early human ...

(Nairobi) – Governments in Central Africa suppressed civil and political rights, especially in the context of elections, with impunity in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report ...

(Nairobi) – Civilians in East Africa and the Horn bore the brunt of armed conflicts between government forces and opposition armed groups in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in its World ...

For CAR, the murky underbelly of its military partnership with Russia also comes “at the cost of serious violations of human rights,” Koena said. Wagner’s alleged atrocities in Africa are ...

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An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ... Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have ...

The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from Brazil who was born in 1908. Sister Inah became the oldest person in the world after the Dec. 29, 2024, ...