Mass migrations of humans often occur do to negative pressures such as environmental crises, overpopulation, or war. Some of the largest mass migrations in history have taken place within the lifetime ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 1, SDG 8, SDG 10, SDG 11, and SDG 13. Over the past decades, environmental changes and disasters such as landslides, flooding, and ...

A major question in paleoanthropology—the field dedicated to studying human evolution—asks how humans migrated. Most research suggests that modern humans evolved in Africa, though of course we ended ...

A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during the early stages ...

Climate change and associated impacts (e.g., sustained droughts, repeated and severe flooding, increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and cyclones, saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers, ...

Preface -- A note on dating terminology -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The relevance and reality of ancient migration -- 2. Making inferences about prehistoric migration -- 3. Migrating hominins and the ...

The human species is on the move. Last year there were more people living outside of their birth countries than at any other time in modern history, according to the United Nations. It’s a sea change ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early settlers in Southeast Asia to migrate during the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica has left scientists both amazed and baffled: the oldest human remains ever found. This find not only deepens our knowledge of early human migration but also ...