Our first steps to Europe: Pleistocene Homo sapiens dispersals, adaptations and interactions in South-East Europe

Información del proyecto

FIRSTSTEPS

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101019659

DOI

10.3030/101019659

Fecha de la firma de la CE 5 Julio 2021

Fecha de inicio 1 Abril 2022

Fecha de finalización 31 Marzo 2027

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 3 306 062,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 3 306 062,00

Coordinado por

EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
Germany

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus

Autores: Jana Kunze, Katerina Harvati, Gerhard Hotz, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis
Publicado en: Journal of Human Evolution, Edición 196, 2024, Página(s) 103591, ISSN 0047-2484
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103591

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya

Autores: Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2026, ISSN 1359-0987
Editor: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.70137

Merging morphological and genetic evidence to assess hybridization in Western Eurasian late Pleistocene hominins.

Autores: Harvati K., Ackermann R.R.
Publicado en: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Edición Volume 6, 2022, Página(s) 1573-1585, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01875-z

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece

Autores: Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2026, ISSN 1359-0987
Editor: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.70138

Grotta della Lea, a new Early Epigravettian site in southern Italy (Uluzzo Bay)

Autores: Giulia Marciani, Antonino Vazzana, Owen Alexander Higgins, Ivan Martini, Gabriele Terlato, Simone Severi, Sara Silvestrini, Matteo Romandini, Gruppo Speleologico Neretino, Francesco Berna, Francesco Iacono, Lucio Calcagnile, Gianluca Quarta, Adriana Moroni, Stefano Benazzi
Publicado en: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Edición 63, 2026, Página(s) 105064, ISSN 2352-409X
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105064

Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece

Autores: Stylianos Koutalis, Carolin Röding, Gildas Merceron, Franck Guy, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-51595-8

Local environment and fire history of a potential Lower Palaeolithic refugium in the Megalopolis Basin, southern Greece, during Marine Isotope Stage 12

Autores: Styliani Kyrikou, Elena Marinova, Ines J.E. Bludau, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Annett Junginger, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Quaternary Research, Edición 128, 2026, Página(s) 71-90, ISSN 0033-5894
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2024.59

Comparative 3D Shape Analysis of the Iwo Eleru Mandible, Nigeria

Autores: Harvati, Katerina; Stringer, Chris; Folorunso, Caleb Adebayo
Publicado en: PaleoAnthropology, Edición 2024:1, 2024, Página(s) 99-111, ISSN 1545-0031
Editor: Paleoanthropology Society, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2024.iss1.1052

The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

Autores: George E. Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Krystalia Chitoglou, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Domenico Giusti, Nicholas Thompson, Georgia Tsartsidou, Effrosyni Roditi, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Quaternary, Edición 7, 2024, Página(s) 41, ISSN 2571-550X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat7040041

New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy

Autores: Annette Oertle, Jacopo Crezzini, Adriana Moroni, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Stefano Benazzi, Armando Falcucci, Giulia Marciani, Matteo Rossini, Ivan Martini, Simona Arrighi, Tom Higham, Francesco Boschin, Katerina Douka
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

A Reinvestigation of the Upper Paleolithic Postcranial Human Remains from the La Rochette Rock Shelter (Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, France)

Autores: David Naumann, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: PaleoAnthropology, Edición 2026:1, 2026, Página(s) 2-27, ISSN 1545-0031
Editor: Paleoanthropology Society, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
DOI: 10.48738/2026.iss1.3869

Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site

Autores: Ines J. E. Bludau, Bernd Wagner, Uwe Kirscher, Maria Schindler, Charlotte Zachow, Johannes Schmidt, Niklas Leicher, Giovanni Muttoni, Serena Perini, Vangelis Tourloukis, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati, Annett Junginger
Publicado en: Boreas, 2026, ISSN 0300-9483
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1111/bor.70061

Production method of the Königsaue birch tar documents cumulative culture in Neanderthals

Autores: Patrick Schmidt, Tabea J. Koch, Matthias A. Blessing, F. Alexandros Karakostis, Katerina Harvati, Veit Dresely, Armelle Charrié-Duhaut
Publicado en: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Edición 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01789-2

Differences in childhood stress between Neanderthals and early modern humans as reflected by dental enamel growth disruptions

Autores: Laura Sophia Limmer, Matteo Santon, Kate McGrath, Katerina Harvati, Sireen El Zaatari
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61321-x

Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Autores: Joscha Gretzinger, Felicitas Schmitt, Angela Mötsch, Selina Carlhoff, Thiseas Christos Lamnidis, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Corina Knipper, Michael Francken, Franziska Mandt, Leif Hansen, Cäcilia Freund, Cosimo Posth, Hannes Rathmann, Katerina Harvati, Günther Wieland, Lena Granehäll, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Wolfram Schier, Dirk Krausse, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels
Publicado en: Nature Human Behaviour, Edición 8, 2024, Página(s) 1467-1480, ISSN 2397-3374
Editor: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7

Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Autores: Katerina Harvati; Hugo Reyes-Centeno
Publicado en: Journal of Human Evolution, Edición Vol 173, 103279, 2022, Página(s) 1-12, ISSN 0047-2484
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103279

The expression of the MIS 12 glacial stage in Southeastern Europe and its impact over the Middle Pleistocene hominins in Megalopolis Basin (Greece)

Autores: Geanina A. Butiseacă, Iuliana Vasiliev, Marcel T.J. van der Meer, Ines J.E. Bludau, Panagiotis Karkanas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Annett Junginger, Andreas Mulch, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Global and Planetary Change, Edición 242, 2024, Página(s) 104585, ISSN 0921-8181
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104585

Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece

Autores: Dalila De Caro, Moritz Kuhn, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Vangelis Tourloukis
Publicado en: PLOS One, Edición 20, 2025, Página(s) e0324958, ISSN 1932-6203
Editor: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324958

Frontal sinuses and human evolution

Autores: Antoine Balzeau, Lou Albessard-Ball, Anna Maria Kubicka, Andréa Filippo, Amélie Beaudet, Elena Santos, Thibault Bienvenu, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Antonis Bartsiokas, Lee Berger , José María Bermúdez de Castro, Michel Brunet, Kristian J. Carlson, Joan Daura, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis, Frederick E. Grine, Katerina Harvati, John Hawks , Andy Herries, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Jiaming Hui, Rachel Ives, Josephi
Publicado en: Science Advances, Edición volume 8, issue 42, 2023, Página(s) 1-10, ISSN 2375-2548
Editor: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp9767

Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes

Autores: Hannes Rathmann; Silvia Perretti; Valentina Porcu; Tsunehiko Hanihara; G Richard Scott; Joel D Irish; Hugo Reyes-Centeno; Silvia Ghirotto; Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: PNAS Nexus, Edición Volume 2, Edición 4, pgad217, 2023, Página(s) 1-11, ISSN 2752-6542
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217

<i>Icex</i>: Advances in the automatic extraction and volume calculation of cranial cavities

Autores: Costantino Buzi; Antonio Profico; Ce Liang; Roman H. Khonsari; Paul O'Higgins; Mehran Moazen; Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Journal of Anatomy, Edición Volume 242, Edición 6, 2022, Página(s) 1172-1183, ISSN 0021-8782
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13843

Dentition of the Mugharet El'Aliya Fossil Human Maxilla, Morocco

Autores: Carolin Röding, Sireen El‐Zaatari, Fernando V. Ramirez Rozzi, Chris Stringer, M. Loring Burgess, Rodrigo S. Lacruz, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Edición 186, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70015

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece)

Autores: Annemieke Milks, Maria Ntinou, Stylianos Koutalis, Dimitrios Michailidis, George E. Konidaris, Domenico Giusti, Nicholas Thompson, Georgia Tsartsidou, Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515479123

Life-history of Palaeoloxodon antiquus reveals Middle Pleistocene glacial refugium in the Megalopolis basin, Greece

Autores: Effrosyni Roditi, Hervé Bocherens, George E. Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51592-9

Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region

Autores: George E. Konidaris, Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Alper Yener Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan, Mehmet Cihat Alçiçek, Nail Uyar, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Edición 106, 2026, Página(s) 211-227, ISSN 1867-1594
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-025-00666-1

Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance

Autores: Tommaso Mori, Alessandro Riga, Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Journal of Human Evolution, Edición 191, 2024, Página(s) 103517, ISSN 0047-2484
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103517

Mugharet el'Aliya: Affinities of an enigmatic north African Aterian maxillary fragment

Autores: Carolin Röding; Chris Stringer; Rodrigo S. Lacruz; Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Edición Volume 180, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 352-369, ISSN 2692-7691
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24642

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

Autores: Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Ayshin Ghalichi, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Adam B. Rohrlach, Kathrin Nägele, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Rita Radzeviciute, Tiago Ferraz, Alexander Stoessel, Rezeda Tukhbatova, Dorothée G. Drucker, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Stefania Vai, Tina Saupe, Christiana L. Scheib, Giulio Catalano, Luca Pagani, Sahra Talamo, Helen Fewlass, L
Publicado en: Nature, Edición Volume 615, 2023, Página(s) 117-126, ISSN 0028-0836
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0

Hunting game: New data on the subsistence strategies during the Uluzzian in Italy

Autores: Sara Silvestrini, Cristina Real, Federico Lugli, Davide Delpiano, Katerina Harvati, Carmine Collina, Marco Peresani, Enza Elena Spinapolice, Matteo Romandini, Stefano Benazzi
Publicado en: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Edición 57, 2024, Página(s) 104575, ISSN 2352-409X
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104575

From Neanderthals to Homo sapiens: New palaeoecological and tephrocronological data from the MIS3 layers of Grotta-Riparo di Uluzzo C (Apulia, southern Italy)

Autores: Juan Ochando, Donatella Magri, Biagio Giaccio, Giovanni Zanchetta, Antonino Vazzana, Omry Barzilai, Francesco Berna, Gruppo Speleologico Neretino, Giulia Marciani, Andrea Zerboni, Sara Silvestrini, Enza E. Spinapolice, Adriana Moroni, Gabriele Terlato, Matteo Romandini, Stefano Benazzi
Publicado en: Quaternary Science Reviews, Edición 376, 2026, Página(s) 109830, ISSN 0277-3791
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109830

A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany

Autores: Carolin Röding, Antonio Profico, Michael Merkel, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-48468-5

The Human Remains From the <scp>MIS</scp> 6 Site of Grotta Del Poggio (Cilento, Southern Italy): A Taxonomic and Chronological Reassessment

Autores: Erica Piccirilli, Rita Sorrentino, Francesca Seghi, Antonino Vazzana, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Harvati, Matteo Bettuzzi, Maria Pia Morigi, Gerhard Weber, Giulia Capecchi, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Ivan Martini, Adriana Moroni, Francesco Boschin, Stefano Ricci, Stefano Benazzi
Publicado en: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Edición 188, 2026, ISSN 2692-7691
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70188

Human population dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental phenotypes

Autores: Hannes Rathmann, Maria T. Vizzari, Judith Beier, Shara E. Bailey, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati
Publicado en: Science Advances, Edición 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Editor: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8129

Pre‐Fusion Shape Changes of Humeral Metaphyseal Surfaces: A New Method for Assessing Maturity and Age in Non‐Adult Skeletal Individuals

Autores: Azahara Salazar‐Fernández, José Miguel Carretero, Yuliet Quintino, Katerina Harvati, Laura Rodríguez, Rebeca García‐González
Publicado en: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Edición 186, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.25063