Palaeoanthropologist Russell L. Ciochon of the University of Iowa has taken a team to the Solo River at Ngandong in Java, Indonesia, to learn more about the 14 Homo erectus fossils discovered there in the early 1930s. Could these individuals have been alive at the last part of the Ice Age? Parks Canada officials announced […]

Alejandro Terrazas of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology has reconstructed the face of a woman who lived on the Caribbean coast between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. He says she resembles people from southeastern Asia. “This indicates that the Americas were populated by several migratory movements, not just one or two waves from northern Asia […]