Peopling the planetHuman migrations: Eastern odyssey Humans had spread across Asia by 50,000 years ago. Everything else about our original exodus from Africa is up for debate. Tim Appenzeller News ...

Peopling the planetWe probably all carry genes from archaic species such as Neanderthals. Chris Stringer explains why the DNA we have in common is more important than any differences.

The peopling wasn't all at once, either: It happened in "pulses" of migration. Current evidence shows that there are three primary branches of Native American ancestors, Potter said.

From archaeological evidence, we know that the initial peopling of the Arctic—from Chukotka in Siberia to the North Slope of Alaska through Northern Canada to Greenland—occurred around 4,500 ...

Compared to the first peopling of Polynesia, the settlement of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, which happened around 3,500 years ago, has received little attention. Researchers from the ...

In the spring of 2001, Janice Williams Rutherford's graduate public history seminar, "Interpreting History through Material Culture" at Washington State University joined in a collaborative project ...