International team of leading Israeli universities finds oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food at Gesher Benot Ya’aqob
Central Asia identified as a key region for human ancestors: it was a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations
Seafood might have helped those prehistoric pioneers, as they could have relied on shellfish to sustain them as they followed migratory routes out of Africa during times of drought
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration
