ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Tracking the dispersal of Homo sapiens into the Levant and across wider Eurasia
The diaspora of modern humans from Africa into Eurasia and beyond is one of the seminal chapters in the history of our species. Modern humans emerged in Africa by 250-300,000 years ago. Their several subsequent dispersals outwards must have followed one of two routes, the most likely being across the Sinai Peninsula and Levantine corridor. Here, they would have encountered resident Neanderthals and beyond, into Eurasia, the Denisovans. A major dispersal of modern humans by ~50,000 years ago, hypothesised to be linked with the Initial Upper Palaeolithic, is paralleled by further development of aspects of behavioural modernity; the increased presence of symbolic objects, art, new types of…
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