The CROSSROADS team collected samples for dating from several paleolithic / paleoanthropological / paleontological sites from diverse regions in Greece. Several scientific articles on this topic were published in international peer reviewed publications, while others are pending. We also collected samples for multi-proxy paleoenvironmental reconstruction, with some results already published, but much more still currently being prepared for publication. A new survey in the Megalopolis basin, MEGAPAL, conducted by the Ephoreia of Paleoanthropology and Speleology and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, under the direction of E. Panagopoulou, P. Karkanas and PI K. Harvati, was also undertaken to locate new sites and investigate the geological and paleoenvironmetal evolution of the basin during the Middle Pleistocene; as was a new survey in the Mygdonia basin, conducted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and directed by K. Kotsakis, with the collaboration of PI K. Harvati and the CROSSROADS team. Both of these surveys have produced important new results which are being prepared for publication.
Finally, we have made significant progress with the state of the art analysis of the existing human fossil record of the region, which constituted the fourth main goal of the project. Most notable here was the virtual reconstruction and analysis of the Apidima fossil crania, published in July 2019 by PI K. Harvati, CROSSROADS team members and collaborators in the highest ranking scientific journal Nature, and widely reported in the international media. Furthermore, we have developed new techniques and approaches for the interpretation of the fossil human remains, which will be applied to the Greek fossil record in the next phase.
The results of the project's work were presented regularly in scientific conferences and in invited lectures by the PI and team members around the world and virtually. They have also been in many cases extensively reported on in the press, both in Germany (host country of the project) and Greece (where most of the research took place), but also internationally.