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

Informacje na temat projektu

FIRSTSTEPS

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101019659

DOI

10.3030/101019659

Data podpisania przez KE 5 Lipca 2021

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Kwietnia 2022

Data zakończenia 31 Marca 2027

Finansowanie w ramach

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Koszt całkowity

€ 3 306 062,00

Wkład UE

€ 3 306 062,00

Koordynowany przez

EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
Germany

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Publikacje

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus

Autorzy: Jana Kunze, Katerina Harvati, Gerhard Hotz, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis
Opublikowane w: Journal of Human Evolution, Numer 196, 2024, Strona(/y) 103591, ISSN 0047-2484
Wydawca: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103591

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya

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

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

Autorzy: Harvati K., Ackermann R.R.
Opublikowane w: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Numer Volume 6, 2022, Strona(/y) 1573-1585, ISSN 2397-334X
Wydawca: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01875-z

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

Autorzy: Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2026, ISSN 1359-0987
Wydawca: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.70138

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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Numer 63, 2026, Strona(/y) 105064, ISSN 2352-409X
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Stylianos Koutalis, Carolin Röding, Gildas Merceron, Franck Guy, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Styliani Kyrikou, Elena Marinova, Ines J.E. Bludau, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Annett Junginger, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Quaternary Research, Numer 128, 2026, Strona(/y) 71-90, ISSN 0033-5894
Wydawca: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2024.59

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

Autorzy: Harvati, Katerina; Stringer, Chris; Folorunso, Caleb Adebayo
Opublikowane w: PaleoAnthropology, Numer 2024:1, 2024, Strona(/y) 99-111, ISSN 1545-0031
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Quaternary, Numer 7, 2024, Strona(/y) 41, ISSN 2571-550X
Wydawca: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat7040041

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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: 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)

Autorzy: David Naumann, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: PaleoAnthropology, Numer 2026:1, 2026, Strona(/y) 2-27, ISSN 1545-0031
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Boreas, 2026, ISSN 0300-9483
Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1111/bor.70061

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

Autorzy: Patrick Schmidt, Tabea J. Koch, Matthias A. Blessing, F. Alexandros Karakostis, Katerina Harvati, Veit Dresely, Armelle Charrié-Duhaut
Opublikowane w: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Numer 15, 2023, ISSN 1866-9557
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Laura Sophia Limmer, Matteo Santon, Kate McGrath, Katerina Harvati, Sireen El Zaatari
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61321-x

Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Nature Human Behaviour, Numer 8, 2024, Strona(/y) 1467-1480, ISSN 2397-3374
Wydawca: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7

Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Autorzy: Katerina Harvati; Hugo Reyes-Centeno
Opublikowane w: Journal of Human Evolution, Numer Vol 173, 103279, 2022, Strona(/y) 1-12, ISSN 0047-2484
Wydawca: 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)

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Global and Planetary Change, Numer 242, 2024, Strona(/y) 104585, ISSN 0921-8181
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Dalila De Caro, Moritz Kuhn, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Vangelis Tourloukis
Opublikowane w: PLOS One, Numer 20, 2025, Strona(/y) e0324958, ISSN 1932-6203
Wydawca: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324958

Frontal sinuses and human evolution

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Science Advances, Numer volume 8, issue 42, 2023, Strona(/y) 1-10, ISSN 2375-2548
Wydawca: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp9767

Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes

Autorzy: Hannes Rathmann; Silvia Perretti; Valentina Porcu; Tsunehiko Hanihara; G Richard Scott; Joel D Irish; Hugo Reyes-Centeno; Silvia Ghirotto; Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: PNAS Nexus, Numer Volume 2, Numer 4, pgad217, 2023, Strona(/y) 1-11, ISSN 2752-6542
Wydawca: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217

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

Autorzy: Costantino Buzi; Antonio Profico; Ce Liang; Roman H. Khonsari; Paul O'Higgins; Mehran Moazen; Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Journal of Anatomy, Numer Volume 242, Numer 6, 2022, Strona(/y) 1172-1183, ISSN 0021-8782
Wydawca: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13843

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

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

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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Numer 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Wydawca: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515479123

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

Autorzy: Effrosyni Roditi, Hervé Bocherens, George E. Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: George E. Konidaris, Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Alper Yener Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan, Mehmet Cihat Alçiçek, Nail Uyar, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Numer 106, 2026, Strona(/y) 211-227, ISSN 1867-1594
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Tommaso Mori, Alessandro Riga, Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Journal of Human Evolution, Numer 191, 2024, Strona(/y) 103517, ISSN 0047-2484
Wydawca: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103517

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

Autorzy: Carolin Röding; Chris Stringer; Rodrigo S. Lacruz; Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Numer Volume 180, Numer 2, 2023, Strona(/y) 352-369, ISSN 2692-7691
Wydawca: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24642

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Nature, Numer Volume 615, 2023, Strona(/y) 117-126, ISSN 0028-0836
Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0

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

Autorzy: Sara Silvestrini, Cristina Real, Federico Lugli, Davide Delpiano, Katerina Harvati, Carmine Collina, Marco Peresani, Enza Elena Spinapolice, Matteo Romandini, Stefano Benazzi
Opublikowane w: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Numer 57, 2024, Strona(/y) 104575, ISSN 2352-409X
Wydawca: 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)

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: Quaternary Science Reviews, Numer 376, 2026, Strona(/y) 109830, ISSN 0277-3791
Wydawca: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109830

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

Autorzy: Carolin Röding, Antonio Profico, Michael Merkel, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Scientific Reports, Numer 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: 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
Opublikowane w: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Numer 188, 2026, ISSN 2692-7691
Wydawca: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70188

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

Autorzy: Hannes Rathmann, Maria T. Vizzari, Judith Beier, Shara E. Bailey, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati
Opublikowane w: Science Advances, Numer 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Wydawca: 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

Autorzy: Azahara Salazar‐Fernández, José Miguel Carretero, Yuliet Quintino, Katerina Harvati, Laura Rodríguez, Rebeca García‐González
Opublikowane w: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Numer 186, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Wydawca: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.25063