For more than a century, scientists have pieced together the story of how humans first reached North America through ancient ...

The history of human migration is full of debates, especially regarding how the first humans arrived in Australia. Recent evidence, including studies published in Archaeology in Oceania, suggests that ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

Migration debates often begin in the wrong place. They ask how many migrants a country should accept, which migrants should ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, a theory based on the dating of organic matter (sampled from the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile) dated the oldest American ...

Current models of human migrations consider cities as equal, so that migration fluxes are driven by population size (left). However, natural hazards, conflicts, or socioeconomic inequalities affect ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated, through multi-agent simulations in a two-dimensional space, that the combination of environmental variability and human migration may foster the ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...