Study published in Nature pushes back the known evidence of human habitation in rainforests by over 80,000 years.

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 ...

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

with the samples consistent with the types of vegetation found in humid West African rainforests. Furthermore, the team notes, the low levels of grass pollen detected confirmed that the site was ...

New evidence reveals early humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of human ...

Primitive Humans Resided in African Rainforests Much Before the Known Period, Researchers Find Tools to Confirm The evolution ...

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

Analyses indicated that when humans were dropping their stone tools in the region, it was a heavily wooded wet forest, typical of humid West African rainforests. Ancient pollen, silicified plant ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

They indicated that when humans were dropping their stone tools in the region, it was a heavily wooded wet forest, typical of ...