Early herders' grassy route through Africa: Old teeth show Lake Victoria wasn't tsetse fly habitat
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 15:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new study of nearly 2,000-year-old livestock teeth show that early herders from northern Africa could have traveled past Kenya's Lake Victoria on their way to southern Africa because the area was grassy -- not tsetse fly-infested bushland as previously believed.