A reproduction of the skull belonging to Mrs Ples, whose fossilised remains were discovered in a South African cave in 1947 Fossilised remains belonging to some of humanity's oldest ancestors are ...

Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Of course, body fossils make up a large part of the global fossil record. But humans and other species leave their mark in ...

Through the intricate study of lava tubes—caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down—an international ...

100,000 Years AgoPerched near Africa's southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits ...

At this cave in North Africa some 15,000 years ago, a human was buried alongside an “unusual and special” medicinal plant: Ephedra, a humble shrub that’s still used today in some traditional ...

but do not constitute representational art The first evidence for drawing were found on rocks in the Blombos Caves in southern Africa and dates back to between 75,000 to 100,000 years ago.

Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...

DURING recent years the British Museum has received from the Rhodesia Broken Hill Development Co. numerous bones from a cave discovered in their mine in North-west Rhodesia about 150 miles north ...