An international team commissioned to preserve the only known early hominid footprint trail dated at 3.5 million years old.

From New Scientist, ostrich egg beads and numerous other artefacts, including ochre pencils, carved bone and stone tools, were recovered from the Loiyangalani River Valley, in Serengeti National Park.

From the BBC, an archaeologist finds evidence that prehistoric East Africa was part of a greater Indian Ocean community.