The timing and the paths of colonization of southern Asia by Homo sapiens are poorly
known, though many population geneticists, paleoanthropologists, and archaeologists have …

The evidence for an early dispersal of Homo sapiens from Africa into the Levant during
Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5) 126–74 ka (thousand years ago) was characterized for …

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th
century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and …

It has been argued recently that the initial dispersal of anatomically modern humans from
Africa to southern Asia occurred before the volcanic “supereruption” of the Mount Toba …

By 50,000 years ago, it is clear that modern humans were capable of long-distance sea
travel as they colonized Australia. However, evidence for advanced maritime skills, and for …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions
extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a …

Batadomba-lena, a rockshelter in the rainforest of southwestern Sri Lanka, has yielded some
of the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia. H. sapiens foragers were present at …

Extremely large volcanic eruptions have been linked to global climate change, biotic
turnover, and, for the Younger Toba Tuff (YTT) eruption 74,000 years ago, near‐extinction of …

The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) volcanic eruption was the most explosive in Europe in the
last 200,000 years. The event coincided with the onset of an extremely cold climatic phase …