Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and
Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten …

The identification of a new hominin group in the Altai mountains called Denisovans was one
of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade. Unlike Neanderthal …

Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest
dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of a Sulawesi warty pig (Sus …

RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

The Pacific region is of major importance for addressing questions regarding human
dispersals, interactions with archaic hominins and natural selection processes. However, the …

The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of settled
agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the Neolithic Revolution) gave rise to a host …

Genome sequences are known for two archaic hominins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—
which interbred with anatomically modern humans as they dispersed out of Africa. We …

The texture of life also changed beyond recognition. From the quiet life of villages, most of
humanity now lived in the tumult of cities. From the relative isolation of villages, humanity …

Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has
been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that …

Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …