Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and
other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated …

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

Abstract Human tracks at White Sands National Park record more than one and a half
kilometres of an out-and-return journey and form the longest Late Pleistocene-age double …

For much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, multiple hominin species coexisted in the same
regions of eastern and southern Africa. Due to the limitations of the skeletal fossil record …

Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million
years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Little is known about the ice age human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Here we
present the results of a targeted investigation of a late Pleistocene shoreline on Calvert …

Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human lineage. Despite evidence that walking on two
feet dates back 6–7 Ma, reconstructing hominin gait evolution is complicated by a sparse …

We report the occurrence at 0.7 million years (Ma) of an ichnological assemblage at
Gombore II-2, which is one of several archaeological sites at Melka Kunture in the upper …

Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia
occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations …