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SFB 806: "Out of Africa" – Excavations in the Egyptian Eastern Desert

It is generally agreed upon that modern man came from Africa to Eurasia sometime in the last 100,000 years; academics do not, however, always agree on the routes that were taken. This question is  the focus of the Collaborative Research Centre 806 "Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary."

Within the framework of this project, academics of different disciplines are investigating two possible routes that modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens) may have taken to Eurasia. With different methods from the areas of geosciences and cultural studies, they are researching a western route through central Sahara over the Strait of Gibraltar to the Iberian Peninsula and another eastern route through  North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. This large-scale project, which is based in Cologne, Bonn and Aachen, is thereby contributing to the research of complex relationships between early  modern man and his environment.

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