Ancient African Ancestors Lived In High Mountains, Ate Rodents of Unusual Size

Ethiopia's Bale Mountains. (Credit: Michele Alfieri/Shutterstock) High-altitude environments are not exactly welcoming places to call home. It’s hard to breathe, there’s little shelter ...

Living the high life in the stone age

People ventured onto the Ethiopian highlands more than 30,000 years ago. Dyani Lewis reports.

Clearing the (high) air

Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age

People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains. There they had enough water, built tools out of obsidian ...

Earliest evidence of human mountaineers found in Ethiopia

Ancient humans lived off giant mole rats high in the mountains of Ethiopia to survive the last ice age, a new study finds.

Ancient humans in Ethiopia fled to the mountains and hunted giant rodents to survive the Ice Age

A team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg has found evidence of human presence high in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains dating as far back as 45,000 years ago.

This Rock Shelter in Ethiopia May Be the Earliest Evidence of Humans Living in the Mountains

Archaeologists working in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia have uncovered the earliest evidence to date of human habitation in a high-altitude environment. Living over 11,000 feet above sea level, ...

The first people to live at high elevations snacked on giant mole rats

The site is the earliest evidence so far of people living at high elevations.

Humans Adapt: During The Last Ice Age, Ethiopians Lived On Rats In Thin Mountain Air

It's a mystery why humans would go to a place even colder during an ice age, and live on giant rats. Yet they did. Most people don't associate Africa with mountain living today, but Ethiopians ...

Earliest evidence of high-altitude living found in Ethiopia

Archaeologists have found a 30,000-year-old rock shelter in Ethiopia, the earliest evidence of high-altitude prehistoric living found yet.

New study in 'Science': Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age

(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains where they ...

Ethiopian rock shelter earliest evidence of high-altitude prehistoric life

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of high-altitude prehistoric living in the form of a rock shelter in Ethiopia, though ...