Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

The story of how humans first entered the Americas is among archaeology’s most persistent puzzles. For much of the 20th ...

As climate change becomes a major driver of migration, EU researchers are listening to affected communities to help support fairer policies for those most at risk. Climate change is already reshaping ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look like based on the difficult choices we make in the coming years. When you ...