The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

Traditional anthropological theory has taught that the first humans made their way to the Americas by walking across ice sheets covering the small land gap between the continents, migrating from ...

New archaeological findings published in Science challenge long-standing theories about when and how humans first reached North America. According to researchers excavating the Cooper’s Ferry site in ...

Research fellow, Department of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand; Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University ...