An artist rendering of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain during the Pleistocene. Credit: University of Colorado Denver Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly ...

In the rugged landscapes of Papua New Guinea—where more than 800 languages echo across valleys and coasts—a remarkable discovery has brought new clarity to one of humanity's greatest migrations. In a ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a period of substantial habitat change. During the ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

A joint research group has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 BCE and 538 CE) came from the Korean Peninsula. The ...

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London are using an x-ray diffraction technique to study the development of children's teeth and track migration patterns of our ancestors.