Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until now, the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in African rainforests dated back just 18,000 years. However, this research pushes that timeline back to an astonishing 150,000 years ago.