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England will play Senegal in the last 16 of the World Cup on Sunday after beating Wales and finishing top of Group B.

Much of the archaeological record in southern Africa occurs as open-air surface scatters of flaked stone artefacts. While historically prominent, these surface artefacts now play a very limited role in reconstructing human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Ages. Given suitable caveats, typologies allow links to be developed between open-air surface scatters and temporally controlled excavated samples, the latter often recovered from rock shelters. Among the limitations of this approach are the incomplete rock shelter record for developing type seriations, and the fact that technologi...

Scientists find Africa's oldest human burial, a child from 78,000 years ago CNET 2 hrs ago Leslie Katz © Provided by CNET The trench excavation at the mouth of a Panga ya Saidi cave shows where archaeologists unearthed the ancient child's grave. Mohammad Javad Shoaee A cluster of 78,000-year-old bones found at the mouth of a coastal Kenyan cave represent the earliest known formal human burial in Africa, shedding light on how our ancient ancestors interacted with the dead.  The remains belong to a Middle Stone Age child believed to have been between 2.5 and 3 years old. T...

Scientists find Africa's oldest human burial, a child from 78,000 years ago CNET 3 hrs ago Leslie Katz © Provided by CNET The trench excavation at the mouth of a Panga ya Saidi cave shows where archaeologists unearthed the ancient child's grave. Mohammad Javad Shoaee A tight cluster of 78,000-year-old bones found at the mouth of a Kenyan cave represent the earliest known formal human burial in Africa and shed light on how our ancient ancestors interacted with the dead.  The remains belong to a Middle Stone Age child believed to have been between 2.5 and 3 years old. The ...

The new discoveries at sites in Senegal on the West coast of Africa, by Max Planck Institute researchers, are fuelling a rethink of the passage of human evolution.