Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent
societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource …

In the last three decades, genetic studies have played an increasingly important role in
exploring human history. They have helped to conclusively establish that anatomically …

Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly
prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA …

This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for
develo** social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two …

Background Vegetatively propagated crops are globally significant in terms of current
agricultural production, as well as for understanding the long-term history of early agriculture …

Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

Abstract South Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups constitute more than 80% of the
population in South Africa. Despite clear linguistic and geographic diversity, the genetic …

Imprints of domesticated pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) spikelets, observed as
temper in ceramics dating to the third millennium BC, provide the earliest evidence for the …

Past human populations are known to have managed crops in a range of ways. Various
methods can be used, singly or in conjunction, to reconstruct these strategies, a process …

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much
longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin …