New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 ... suited for cutting fibrous plants and other tropical forest resources. In 2020, archaeologist and ...

Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...