When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...

Newswise — The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early settlers in Southeast Asia to migrate during the ...

A groundbreaking genetics study has suggested that Native Americans have a more diverse ancestral source from Asia. Published in the journal Cell Reports, the study from Kunming Institute of Zoology ...

Experimental archaeology is always interesting to me. There's a guy in Queensland somewhere who has a block where he's built a hut and is making clay vessels, smelting iron, etc. all using modern ...