Project description
Homo sapiens evolution in South-East Europe
The early history of Homo sapiens remains largely unknown. Increasingly, it is viewed as a dynamic process of population expansions and contact among human lineages, occurring in concert with the Pleistocene climatic oscillations, which influenced the probability of human survival as well as the availability of land bridges enabling expansions. As such, dispersals and population contact may have played a central role in human evolution. South-East Europe emerges as an area of sustained and successive contact. In this context, the ERC-funded FIRSTSTEPS project will apply a pioneering interdisciplinary investigation to recover new evidence and connect existing evidence across sites, regions and periods. The findings will take paleoanthropological research in South-East Europe to the next level.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantHost institution
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
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72074 Tuebingen
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40126 Bologna
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