Category
page 1Prehistoric migrations
Austronesian peoples
group of Austronesian-speaking peoples
early human migrations
spread of the human species from Africa through the world
recent African origin of modern humans
dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans, according to which Homo sapiens developed in the Horn of Africa 300–200 kya and dispersed to the rest of the world in multiple events
Indo-Aryan migrations
theory of migrations of Indo-Aryan peoples into the Indian subcontinent
Bantu expansion
name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group
Sahara pump theory
hypothesis about migration of species between Africa and Eurasia
Indo-European migrations
migrations out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe
Out of Africa I
first hominin expansion into Eurasia (2.1–0.1 Ma)

Coastal migration
model of early human migration