Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from
Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some …

Abstract The Wallacea Archipelago provides an extraordinary laboratory for the study of
human colonisation and adaptation, yet few detailed archaeological studies have been …

A hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007 in Callao Cave (Northern Luzon, the
Philippines) and dated to 67 thousand years ago provided the earliest direct evidence of a …

Genome sequences are known for two archaic hominins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—
which interbred with anatomically modern humans as they dispersed out of Africa. We …

H omo erectus is the founding early hominin species of Island Southeast Asia, and reached
Java (Indonesia) more than 1.5 million years ago,. Twelve H. erectus calvaria (skull caps) …

Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans.
Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable
alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas—one of the …

Abstract Notarchirico (Southern Italy) has yielded the earliest evidence of Acheulean
settlement in Italy and four older occupation levels have recently been unearthed, including …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …