For decades, scientists believed that early humans avoided rainforests, considering them too challenging for survival. Thick ...

New evidence from West Africa is reshaping our understanding of early human migration and adaptation, challenging long-held ...

Burials provide not only important insights into social and ritual life of prehistoric populations, but also biological information that can be used to reconstruct past population movements.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that humans thrived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, reshaping what we know about ...

Fifteen ancient genomes spread across the Americas revealed two distinct migrations from North to South America, highlighting the complexity of early human migrations and suggesting that early people ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

During this peak, early humans "encountered Neanderthals ... because it does constrain quite a few other things about human migration patterns," Benjamin Peter, a University of Rochester ...

Researchers have discovered a 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young woman in a cave in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that provides new insight into the migration patterns of early humans. DNA from the ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

which could have pushed early humans farther north, rather than back to Africa. Prior evidence has shown that such migrations took place in waves. The stone assemblage they found, along with many ...

Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Ambassador of the Faya Palaeolandscape World Heritage Nomination File, and Chairperson ...