HEAS Member Katerina Douka featured in ‘Die Presse’
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HEAS Member Katerina Douka was recently interviewed by ‚Die Presse‘ on her work identifying previously unclassified tooth and bone samples and her methods for decontaminating archaeological material.
„Just two decades ago, people had a fairly simple picture of why modern humans were the only ones of the Homo genus to survive.“ This picture was based on theories about hunting techniques and tools and fed the idea of superior modern humans who conquered the world victoriously. „But that’s not how it happened.“ We have known that there were other forms of humans since the discovery of the first Neanderthal skull – recognized as such – in 1856, three years before Charles Darwin’s „On the Origin of Species.“
Read full article (in German) below:
https://www.diepresse.com/18905736/die-geschichte-der-menschheit-muss-umgeschrieben-werden
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