To reach the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, humans crossed more than 2,000 kilometres of open ocean, and around 2,000 years earlier than any other sea travel over an equally long distance.

How did people first get to America? The route by which people first entered the Americas from Asia – and when it happened – has generated decades of research. Now, a new study concludes that both an ...

New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul -- the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today - ...

Careful examination of numerous fluted spear points found in Alaska and western Canada prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed. Careful ...

Schematic representation of the peopling of Eurasia through repeated waves of expansion from an out of Africa population Hub (grey-shaded area, precise location is not known); the red arrows ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. How⁠ and when⁠ did people first come to the American continents? In this video, Jennifer Raff, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kansas ...