Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world Guy Gugliotta Christopher Henshilwood (in Blombos Cave) dug at one of the most important early human sites partly out of ...

Africa’s annual Great Migration is hailed as one of the seven wonders of the world. During this extraordinary phenomenon, over a million wildebeests traverse the Masai Mara National Reserve (MMNR) to ...

Detroit native Stephen Henderson details his family’s history during The Great Migration. The Great Migration is the focus of a new PBS documentary series “Great Migrations: People on the Move” ...

Original Title: Proportion of Negro to Total Population at the Twelfth Census 1900. Source: United States Bureau of the Census. - Frontispiece of Negroes in the United States (1904), Bulletin 8 of ...

East Africa’s ‘Great Migration’ is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti-Mara landscape ...

The first archaeological evidence of a human migration out of Africa was found in the caves of Qafzeh and Skhul, in present-day Israel. These sites, initially discovered in the 1930s, contained the ...