Homo sapiens was present in northern Asia by around 40,000 years ago, having replaced
archaic populations across Eurasia after episodes of earlier population expansions and …

The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce. Well-
dated and well-preserved fossils older than∼ 45,000 years that can be unequivocally …

Considerable attention has been paid to dating the earliest appearance of hominins outside
Africa. The earliest skeletal and artefactual evidence for the genus Homo in Asia currently …

Levallois approaches are one of the best known variants of prepared-core technologies, and
are an important hallmark of stone technologies developed around 300,000 years ago in …

The timing of early human dispersal to Asia is a central issue in the study of human
evolution. Excavations in predominantly lacustrine sediments at Majuangou, Nihewan basin …

BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

The geographic expansion of Homo sapiens populations into southeastern Europe occurred
by∼ 47,000 years ago (∼ 47 ka), marked by Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) technology. H …

Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the
Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene …

The earliest hominin occupation of Europe is one of the most debated topics in
palaeoanthropology. However, the purportedly oldest of the Early Pleistocene sites in …

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing
the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia 1, 2, 3, 4. Archaeological …