Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Blombos Cave held signs of early human creativity ... the tools suggest it is the earliest known settlement of modern humans outside of Africa except for the dead enders at Israel's Qafzeh ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

"The group lived outside, in the open or in shelters under the rocks." Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult ...