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

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our ...

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

Early humans adapted to rainforest conditions far earlier than previously thought, archaeologists have discovered.

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 ...

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

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

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 ...

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