The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to ...

A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that humans were living in African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago ...

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

West Africa ; Rainforest ; Evolution: 150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Shakes Up Human History. Published Feb 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST Updated Mar 02, 2025 at 2:02 PM EST . By . Ian ...

If that were true, then early humans should have also been present in West and Central Africa, where rainforests were common. The oldest firm evidence of humans in African rainforests dated back ...

The Rainforest Alliance’s 2024 Annual Report shines a spotlight on the transformative power of regenerative agriculture in West and Central Africa, where rural communities are not only adapting to ...

Sixty-five per cent of farmers in the Sui River in the Western North region landscape invested in climate adaptation, a ...

Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. ... with pollen and leaf waxes typical for humid west African forest.

Archaeologists stunned by discovery of human relics in 150,000-year-old rainforest The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans ...

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 ...

Humans inhabited rainforests in Africa at least 150,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed. This challenges the notion that rainforests were barriers to early human habitation.

In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human evolutionary history. Artifacts ...