A teenage hunter‑gatherer from Sulawesi and a quartet of Stone‑Age children from western Cameroon have each yielded DNA that rewrites the map of early human dispersals.

The Sulawesi skeleton, dated to 7,200 years ago, belongs to a female of the Toalean culture and was recovered from the Leang Panninge cave in 2015. The four Cameroonian children span two burial events: a double burial…

A Wallacea genome that defies expectations

The Sulawesi teen’s petrous bone survived the tropics long enough for researchers to extract a near‑complete genome. The DNA places her on the very first wave of modern humans that left Eurasia for the Australian cont…