Marlize Lombard works for the University of Johannesburg. She received funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest ...
In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, analysed the DNA of 28 ...
The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...
Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa — and unearthed new mysteries that may be hard to solve. By analyzing the bones and pyre ...
Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...
Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...
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