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The New Mexico findings could rewrite the history of human migration to the Americas.
The new work presents the oldest dated evidence for hominins in Arabia, in the form of an ancient handaxe tool uncovered from the Nefud Desert.
Five centuries before Columbus arrived, migrants were spreading across North America, carrying their culture with them and mixing with those they encountered in new places.
Did people settle these islands by traveling north from South America, or in the other direction? Reanalyzing data from artifacts discovered decades ago provides a definitive answer.
Genetic studies show mingling between populations has been the norm throughout human history.
The militarisation of borders and securitisation of migration have always failed to stop irregular migration.
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
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.
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.
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Group leader of Max Planck 'Extreme Events' group., Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral researcher in genetics, University of Leicester
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Archaeologist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Assistant Professor in Archaeology, Leiden University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
