This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

Bipedalism is a hallmark of being human and the human foot is modified to reflect this
unique form of locomotion. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with calling the human foot “a …

Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Little is known about the ice age human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Here we
present the results of a targeted investigation of a late Pleistocene shoreline on Calvert …

The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely
linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna …

Bipedalism is a defining feature of the human lineage. Despite evidence that walking on two
feet dates back 6–7 Ma, reconstructing hominin gait evolution is complicated by a sparse …

We report the occurrence at 0.7 million years (Ma) of an ichnological assemblage at
Gombore II-2, which is one of several archaeological sites at Melka Kunture in the upper …