Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

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

Considerable attention has been paid to dating the earliest appearance of hominins outside
Africa. The earliest skeletal and artefactual evidence for the genus Homo in Asia currently …

The site of Dmanisi, Georgia, has yielded an impressive sample of hominid cranial and
postcranial remains, documenting the presence of Homo outside Africa around 1.8 million …

Genetic evidence for anatomically modern humans (AMH) out of Africa before 75 thousand
years ago (ka) and in island southeast Asia (ISEA) before 60 ka (93–61 ka) predates …

H omo erectus is the founding early hominin species of Island Southeast Asia, and reached
Java (Indonesia) more than 1.5 million years ago,. Twelve H. erectus calvaria (skull caps) …

In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

Sulawesi is the largest and oldest island within Wallacea, a vast zone of oceanic islands
separating continental Asia from the Pleistocene landmass of Australia and Papua (Sahul) …

The Homo erectus cranium from Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province is the
oldest fossil hominin specimen from North China. It was found in 1964 in a layer below the …

The chronology of the World Heritage Site of Sangiran in Indonesia is crucial for the
understanding of human dispersals and settlement in Asia in the Early Pleistocene (before …