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EFCHED

Results and findings

Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal, 2002-2006.

The EFCHED programme funded 12 projects. Below are some of the findings from these projects.

  1. Shedding light on modern humans in Africa

  2. Africa-Arabia connections: coastal environments, tectonics and human dispersals

  3. Advanced computer modelling of hominin dispersal from Africa: integrating archaeological and palaeoclimatic simulations

  4. Palaeoinformatic approach to the context of the earliest human dispersals (PACED)

  5. The evolution of hominin dietary adaptations linked with environmental changes: extending the record beyond 100,000 years

  6. Searching for traces of the Southern Dispersal: environmental and historical research on the evolution of human diversity in southern Asia and Australo-Melanesia

  7. Neanderthal climate preferences and tolerances: the need for a better chronology

  8. Human migration and evolution along the Indian Ocean Rim: genetics, morphometrics, and palaeoenvironment

  9. The chronology of the Aurignacian in Eastern Europe: the changing distribution of modern humans in the environmental context

  10. Human dispersals and environmental controls during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene in Mexico: implications for the peopling of the Americas

  11. Chronology, adaptation and environment of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Africa: implications for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans

  12. Environmental factors in human evolution and dispersals in the Upper Pleistocene of the western Mediterranean