Katerina Douka

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa, dispersed into Eurasia, and by 60,000 years ago they reached Sahul, the supercontinent that connected present-day Australia, Papua New Guinea and Tasmania. Katerina Douka’s new project RIFT-to-RIM aims at the discovery and molecular analysis of new early modern human fossils, by screening thousands of archaeological bones, and hundreds of sediment samples, from 21 archaeological sites in 6 countries along the African Rift and the Pacific Rim, which date to between 200.000 und 10.000 years ago.