Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

A group of early Homo sapiens crossed into Arabia more than 100,000 years ago, long before the migration that shaped modern populations. Their presence was brief. Archaeological evidence shows they ...

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the Americas.

A new study in Science challenges the Monte Verde timeline, reshaping when humans first reached South America.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

Issued by: The Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University. The interdisciplinary and international journal of the Center for the Study of the First Americans focuses on the ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ancient human ancestors — and a Southern Connecticut State University ...

Reference map showing natural features cited, cities, and known routes connecting the Nile River, Foul Bay, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea throughout history. Credit: Dobson et al ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...