The field of ergonomics studies how the human body interacts with its physical environment.
Often there is a focus on hand-held tools. In the case of hominin artifacts, factors relating to …

We use models from human behavioral ecology to examine stone artifacts from 23 sites in
Korea to investigate mobility and site occupation patterns during the Late Pleistocene. This …

How Palaeolithic maritime transportation originated and developed is one of the key
questions to understand the world-wide dispersal of modern humans that began 70,000 …

According to the Out-of-Africa theory, humans originated in Africa and from there expanded
into Eurasia. Besides entering Eurasia via a terrestrial route, humans may have used sea …

Systematic tree-felling using a polished stone axe and/or adze developed with sedentary
lifeways in Holocene environments. However, securely dated Pleistocene edge-ground …

The rise of water transport technology enabled early modern humans to expand their
habitable territory to insular environments. However, apart from intensive discussion for …

Island migration and adaptation including both marine and terrestrial resource use and
technological development by anatomically modern humans (AMH) are among the most …

This study evaluates the hypothesis that some documented cases of long-distance sea
crossing by the Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens occurred as a result of accidental drifting …

Modern human dispersal to Asia is drawing more researchers' attention as more Asian
records become available in archaeology, paleoanthropology and genetics. The ecocultural …

Understanding hominin expansions requires the comprehension of movement processes at
different scales. In many models of hominin expansion these processes are viewed as being …