New perspectives on how climatic and environmental changes influenced the evolution of mammals and hominins over the last six million years.
The strengthening of the summer monsoon played a key role in the dispersion of Homo sapiens from Africa to East Asia during the interglacial between 70,000 and 125,000 years ago
An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly contributed to volcanology, by recording some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions
Three straight years of severe drought accelerated the Hittite Empire’s collapse, according to a new research published on Nature
Tracing the effects of Climate Change on Historic Cultures in Hokkaido Scientists from Hokkaido University have reconstructed the climate of Hokkaido over the…
A team of researchers from the University of Utah investigated how climate change and population pressure influenced rates of homicide and warfare in the Nasca Highlands of ancient Peru
The Rök runestone, erected in Östergötland around 800 CE, is the world’s most famous runestone from the Viking Age, but has also proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret
New article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia by 50-30,000 years ago
The reason that humans shifted away from hunting and gathering, and to farming — a much more labor-intensive process — has always been a riddle
