The exhibition Technological advances along the Silk Road – Blown and Tooled: Western Asian Influences in Ancient Glass in China at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong
Human bones were used for making pendants in the Stone Age, on the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov on Lake Onega
‘Homo erectus’ from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in China; a new study published on the Journal of Human Evolution
A study, published on PLoS One, challenges theories of earlier human arrival in Americas and develops a Apparent Stratigraphic Integrity Index
Early human habitats linked to past climate shifts. A study published in Nature by an international team of scientists provides clear evidence
A population hub out of Africa explains East Asian lineages in Europe 45 KYA; the study has been published on Genome Biology and Evolution
Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite
The pattern of North-South extinction in Hipparion ambiguum – an extinct genus of the Equidae family – is confirmed
Origin of domestic horses finally established. Horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes, northern Caucasus, before conquering the rest of Eurasia
A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that the genetics and skeletal biology “simply does not match-up”.