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Early Human Migration

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Out Of Africa Migration18 Peopling Of Asia12 Peopling Of Europe17 Peopling Of The Americas14 Polynesian Expansion10

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Bronze Age steppe pastoralist expansions across Central Asia (c.2500–1000 BCE)

3300 BCE - 1000 BCE

Bering Land Bridge (Beringia) habitation and ecology (c. 30,000–8,000 BP)

33700 BCE - 6000 BCE

Bell Beaker phenomenon and population movements in Western Europe (c. 2800–1800 BCE)

1800 - 3300

Austronesian expansion out of Taiwan and the Philippines (c. 3000–1500 BCE)

1200 - 3500

Austronesian expansion from Taiwan into the Philippines and Remote Oceania (c.3000–500 BCE)

4000 BCE - 500 BCE

Aurignacian expansion across Europe (c. 43,000–30,000 BP)

45600 BCE - 1860

Arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe (c. 45,000–35,000 BP)

52000 BCE - 33000 BCE

Ancient Siberian genomes (Mal'ta–Buret' and related) and their contribution to New World population models (c. 24,000–8,000 BP)

30000 BCE - 2019

Ancient genomes and the Anzick-1 child: implications for early New World ancestry (c. 13,000 BP and subsequent studies)

1968 - 2019

Ancient DNA evidence for South Asian population formation (Upper Paleolithic–Iron Age)

50000 BCE - 2025

Acheulean industries in the Levant and Europe (c. 1.4 Ma–300 ka)

1400 BCE - 1797

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