Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

They had no human fossils from sub-Saharan Africa from between 15,000 and 70,000 years ago. Because the epoch of the great migration was a blank slate, they could not say for sure that the modern ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the arid deserts of Saudi Arabia: human footprints that date back approximately 115,000 years. These footprints challenge previous notions about ...

A detail shot of Mary Ann Unger's "Across the Bering Strait" (1992–94), currently on view at Berry Campbell in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood through May 17 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

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Male lineages expand rapidly at key points in our past. Not that it's probably of historical significance at this late a point in history, but I wonder how accurate this technique will be going ...

In Session 1, speakers examined how rapid-onset catastrophic events such as severe storms may prompt human migration, including the interplay of natural and social processes under which stress-induced ...