Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. It’s also one of the most complex, and scientists are still learning new things about it all the time. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear, however, is that climate change impacts humans and the way we live. This is true today, as it was in the past. However, a key question remains. How did climate change impact early humans?
Pulses of increased rainfall transformed arid Arabian Peninsula into a route for human population movements over last 400,000 years.
Findings shine light on Homo sapiens' origins in southern Africa interior.
Small engraved rocks believed to have acted as a ‘social glue’ to unite early human societies.
Discovery indicates ancient humans occupied site more than half a million years earlier than previously thought.
Study sheds new light on the complex journey of human populations from Africa into Eurasia.
Findings support growing consensus for lush Jordan Rift Valley that funnelled migrants into western Asia and northern Arabia.
The takeover of Southeast Asia’s grasslands with today’s rainforests contributed to the extinction of the region’s megafauna and ancient humans.
Scientists have identified tracks left on an ancient freshwater lake in the Arabian Peninsula as the earliest trace of human arrival in the area from about 120,000 years ago.
Three-million-year-old brain imprints in fossil skulls of the species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for “Lucy” and the “Dikika child’’ from Ethiopia) shed new light on the evolution of brain growth.
