Archaeological discoveries in a jungle cave in central Indonesia suggest humans arrived there 18,000 years ago and decided to stay a while, hunting in the jungle and building canoes.
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Stone tools found in a cave in Mexico have archaeologists rewriting the human history of the Americas.
An archaeological site in India sheds new light on how ancient humans dispersed from Africa across the world.
Reconsidering an old ecological conundrum comes up with a new perspective on migration, contact and trade in the Australia and Asia-Pacific region.
A fresh look at museum artifacts fills in a gap in the Asian archaeological record and refutes the idea that an advanced technique was imported from the West by early modern humans.
Modern day people of short stature became physically small due to the effects of living on a small island or forested environment. But we’re not sure why “the Hobbit” of Flores was so small.
Conquer the globe? You bet we did – but when did it start? A new paper shows early humans made tools in China two million years ago.
How we found the oldest human fossil ever discovered outside Africa and the Levant.
New research suggests that hints left in Creole languages can identify where the original speakers came from – even hundreds of years after they migrated and mixed together.
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to harsh climates than those in the rest of Europe.
Researchers in human evolution used to focus on Africa and Eurasia – but not anymore. Discoveries in Asia and Australia have changed the picture, revealing early, complex cultures outside of Africa.
Thousands of American women moved west to take advantage of wartime employment opportunities during WWII. For some, this version of the California dream was temporary; for others, it lasted a lifetime.
Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
I try to learn who are the ancestors of Indonesian people through genetics. The genetics of Indonesian people are a mix between different groups of humans.
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
Ancient bone and teeth ornaments found in an Indonesian cave advance our knowledge of the culture and traditions of some of the earliest people in our region.
Researchers ran computer simulations that take into account environmental variability and geographical setting to investigate how early explorers made it to these tiny, remote islands in the Pacific.
A new study suggests the first humans probably got to America from Siberia via the Pacific coast rather than through a corridor between two giant ice sheets, as previously thought.
There is belief among some that climate change drives human displacement, but research in Malawi suggests otherwise.
Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then it gets messy. Luckily advances in genetic sequencing have helped us track the complex history of human migration.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Distinguished Professor, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University; UCL
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Distinguished Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Mediterranean Prehistory, University of Malta
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor and Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst