Definitions of our species as unique within the hominin clade have tended to focus on
differences in capacities for symbolism, language, social networking, technological …

As the main external driver, environmental changes largely predetermine human population
distribution, especially in the Arctic, where environmental conditions were often too extreme …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

The severe cooling and the expansion of the ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum
(LGM), 27,000–19,000 y ago (27–19 ky ago) had a major impact on plant and animal …

Eastern Africa is an important area to study early populations of Homo sapiens because
subsets of those populations likely dispersed to Eurasia and subsequently throughout the …

Several questions remain regarding the timing and nature of the Neanderthal-anatomically
modern human (AMH) transition in Europe. The situation in Eastern Europe is generally less …

The last decade has seen a significant growth of our knowledge of the Neandertals, a
population of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers who lived in (western) Eurasia between∼ …

Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

The Streletskian is central to understanding the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic on the East
European Plain. Early Streletskian assemblages are frequently seen as marking the …

When people set foot in Sahul (Australia and New Guinea) about 50 thousand years ago,
they entered a new world which had not seen any species of hominin before. More than 30 …