human migration

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-4-17
  

  In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration

  A new genetic analysis finds that ancient Africans walked into Europe 270,000 years ago, much earlier than previously known, and interbred with Neanderthals.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  12-3-14
  

  The surprising origins of Europeans

  Researchers discuss new theories on human migration revealed by sophisticated DNA tests.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-14-14
  

  Tracing Ancestry, Researchers Produce a Genetic Atlas of Human Mixing Events

  The genetic atlas of human mixing events was published on Thursday in the journal Science.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-7-14
  

  Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk

  Details of the extraordinary markings have been published in the science journal Plos One.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  1-28-14
  

  Carbon dates cast doubt on Near East's role in human migration

  Early humans may have colonized the Near East much later than originally thought.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  8-8-13
  

  Crossrail unearths evidence humans lived on Thames in 7,000 BC

  Rare evidence that humans lived on the River Thames 9,000 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists working on the Crossrail project.A Mesolithic tool-making factory featuring 150 pieces of flint was found at the tunnelling worksite in Woolwich.Archaeologists said prehistoric Londoners were using the site to prepare river cobbles which were then made into flint tools.Gold has also been discovered at its site in Liverpool Street....

• SOURCE: Eurekalert
  8-8-13
  

  Scientists have found new evidence to show how early humans migrated into Europe

  Humans originated in Africa. But what route did they take as they began to disperse around the world 60,000 years ago? A new professor at the University of Huddersfield has played a key role in finding the answer to one of the most fundamental questions in the history of mankind.Professor Richards, who moved to Huddersfield from the University of Leeds, is a pioneer in the field -- one of just two professors of archaeogenetics in the world. He uses DNA evidence to study human origins, comparing data from modern samples across the world and occasionally to that which can be obtained from ancient sources such as skeletal remains and fossilised teeth. It leads to a vivid picture of the migration patterns of humankind and the origins of civilisation....

• SOURCE: Universitat Tuebingen
  3-22-13
  

  Ancient DNA challenges theory early migration

  Recent measurements of the rate at which children show DNA changes not seen in their parents -- the "mutation rate" -- have challenged views about major dates in human evolution.In particular these measurements have made geneticists think again about key dates in human evolution, like when modern non-Africans split from modern Africans. The recent measurements push back the best estimates of these dates by up to a factor of two. Now, however an international team led by researchers at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, present results that point again to the more recent dates. The new study is published in Current Biology. The team, led by Johannes Krause from Tübingen University, was able to reconstruct more than ten mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) from modern humans from Eurasia that span 40,000 years of prehistory. The samples include some of the oldest modern human fossils from Europe such as the triple burial from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic, as well as the oldest modern human skeletons found in Germany from the site of Oberkassel close to Bonn....