Similar storage structures have been identified across the Strait of Gibraltar in Iberia, where evidence of African influences—such as ivory and ostrich eggs—has long been recognised.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest ... the researchers report. Ancient rainforest pioneers served as ancestors of later Stone Age populations in Ivory Coast’s ...

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of ...

the researchers determined that—at the time of the ancient human occupation—the region was heavily wooded, with the samples consistent with the types of vegetation found in humid West African ...