Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered seven fossilized human footprints, about 115,000 years old, preserved in a prehistoric lakebed in the Nefud Desert. The rare preservation offers direct ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analyzing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...

Male lineages expand rapidly at key points in our past. Not that it's probably of historical significance at this late a point in history, but I wonder how accurate this technique will be going ...

Migration has shaped human societies from prehistoric times to the present, driving demographic shifts, cultural exchange and economic transformation on every continent. Early human dispersals out of ...

Three keynote speakers set the stage for the workshop for a multifaceted exploration of climate change and human migration. Speakers provided an overview of different approaches to studying the topic, ...

Migration debates often begin in the wrong place. They ask how many migrants a country should accept, which migrants should be prioritised and how quickly they should arrive. These are important ...