In Session 1, speakers examined how rapid-onset catastrophic events such as severe storms may prompt human migration, including the interplay of natural and social processes under which stress-induced ...

Scientists have found 80,000-year-old modern human teeth in a Chinese cave, challenging the most widely accepted timelines of ...

Mass migrations of humans often occur do to negative pressures such as environmental crises, overpopulation, or war. Some of the largest mass migrations in history have taken place within the lifetime ...

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 1, SDG 8, SDG 10, SDG 11, and SDG 13. Over the past decades, environmental changes and disasters such as landslides, flooding, and ...

For many decades, one of the biggest debates in the history of human civilisation has been about the time when human beings ...

Current models of human migrations consider cities as equal, so that migration fluxes are driven by population size (left). However, natural hazards, conflicts, or socioeconomic inequalities affect ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Saudi Arabia has uncovered ancient human footprints that shed new light on the migration of early humans out of Africa. These traces, preserved in the arid ...

A detail shot of Mary Ann Unger's "Across the Bering Strait" (1992–94), currently on view at Berry Campbell in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood through May 17 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

Learn how new research challenges the age of Monte Verde and what it means for early human migration in South America.

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...