"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18,000 years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast Asia ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by ... populations in Ivory Coast’s rainforests and in coastal mangrove forests farther north in what’s now Senegal, suspects ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.