Students simulate the passing on of genetic markers and make connections to
ancient human migration routes.
Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before
the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.
Researchers are scouring the now - barren Arabian Peninsula to uncover its hidden role in
ancient human migration.
Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about
ancient human migrations.
As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of
ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.
Not exact matches
Al Wusta's
ancient human fossil — combined with comparably
ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that
humans left Africa in one or a few major
migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.
Three
ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for
human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.
Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those
migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's
humans, or potentially DNA extracted from
ancient bones.
By comparing Ust» - Ishim's genome to various groups of modern and
ancient humans, the researchers are filling in gaps in the map of initial
human migrations around the globe.
«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual
human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks
ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.
They — and all other Europeans — are already a mishmash, the children of repeated
ancient migrations, according to scientists who study
ancient human origins.
Concerned that evidence of
human settlement and
migration may be lost under the sea, researchers are finding new ways of tracking
ancient mariners.
Indeed, the evidence from Misliya is consistent with recent suggestions based on
ancient DNA for an earlier
migration, prior to 220,000 years ago, of modern
humans out of Africa.
But another kind of DNA might help them in their work —
ancient human DNA that details
migration and population patterns from that time.
This contrasts with many archaeological sites in Russia, Europe, and the Americas where
ancient humans are rarely directly related to living people nearby, thanks to wholesale
migration and mixing since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.
Almost all of us are the children of repeated
ancient migrations, according to researchers who study
ancient human origins.
Almost all of us are the children of repeated
ancient migrations, according to researchers who study
human origins.
The first
ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of
migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago affected the genetic make - up of populations across East Africa.
A study of
ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that
human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of
human population.
The «Out of Africa» theory of
human migration proposes that our
ancient Homo sapiens ancestors evolved in Africa before migrating in a single wave to the Asian continent about 60,000 years ago.
Listen to the Nature Podcast in which study author María Martinón - Torres explains how the
ancient teeth challenge ideas of early
human migration here.
The first whole - genome analyses of
ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of
human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years.
A photographer undertook an artistic and scientific odyssey that was inspired by an
ancient migration now imperiled by
human encroachment.