Prehistoric pioneers moving out of Africa and on to Arabia 5,000 years ago feasted on shellfish as a way to sustain themselves, a new study found. Archaeologists from the University of York studied ...

Early humans living two million years ago already had the skills and tools they needed in order to cope with the effects of climate change, study shows. Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Explore the role of technological innovation in human migration out of Africa, as new findings challenge previous climate theories. Researchers have long debated whether human migration out of Africa ...

A site in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates which contains evidence of the earliest humans to leave Africa, has been named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Faya Palaeolandscape, which is around ...

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Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have sunk an Egyptian city. Not long after humankind’s emergence in Africa, Homo ...

A groundbreaking genetic study confirms modern humans arrived in Australia approximately 60,000 years ago, settling a long-standing archaeological debate. Researchers analyzed thousands of genomes, ...

Research on some of the oldest known human DNA fragments from Britain has shed light on the ancestry of people who first colonised North Wales after the last Ice Age. Analysis suggests humans living ...

The first people to call themselves English were predominantly descended from northern Europeans, a new study reveals. Over 400 years of mass migration from the northern Netherlands and Germany, as ...