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About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ...

On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists buried their dead in communal cemeteries that were marked by stone circles and pillars. The north-west Kenya ...

Kapstadt (dpa) - Der weltbekannte kenianische Anthropologe und Naturschützer Richard Leakey ist im Alter von 77 Jahren gestorben. Dies teilte Kenias Präsident Uhuru Kenyatta mit.

As an archaeologist, I am hoping to connect the continent’s people to the hidden history of their land, says Sada Mire

Wann begannen unsere Vorfahren, ihre Toten zu bestatten? Diese Frage ist vor allem für Afrika, die Wiege des Homo sapiens, bislang schwer zu beantworten.