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 ...

Persian Plateau Unveiled as Crucial Hub for Early Human Migration out of Africa Mar. 25, 2024 — A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the ...

This notion challenges existing theories on early human migration, suggesting that these submerged lands may have played a pivotal role in facilitating the movement of people across vast stretches ...

An international study led by researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena uncovered 80,000-year-old stone blades made by Homo sapiens in Arabia, representing the oldest evidence of systematic ...

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 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 ...

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Knut Bretzke from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, has identified the ...

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact extends far beyond providing meat. Their wool transformed clothing, their ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought, according to a new study published in Nature ...

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia ... exploit the extraordinary abundance of food during a few weeks in early summer and profit from long days, which allow them to extend ...