Project overview
One of the most exciting and enduring research questions within Archaeology is that of the peopling of the planet and the movement of Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) Out of Africa.
The colonization of Sahul (modern day Australasia) by at least 65,000 years ago, represents some of the earliest evidence of modern human colonization outside Africa. Yet even at the greatest sea-level lowstand, this migration would have involved seafaring.
It is the maritime nature of this dispersal that makes it so important to questions of technological, cognitive and social human development. These issues have traditionally been the preserve of archaeologists, but the ACROSS project takes a multidisciplinary approach that embraces marine geoarchaeology, oceanography, and archaeogenetics, to examine the when, where, who and how of the earliest ocean crossings in world history
The colonization of Sahul (modern day Australasia) by at least 65,000 years ago, represents some of the earliest evidence of modern human colonization outside Africa. Yet even at the greatest sea-level lowstand, this migration would have involved seafaring.
It is the maritime nature of this dispersal that makes it so important to questions of technological, cognitive and social human development. These issues have traditionally been the preserve of archaeologists, but the ACROSS project takes a multidisciplinary approach that embraces marine geoarchaeology, oceanography, and archaeogenetics, to examine the when, where, who and how of the earliest ocean crossings in world history
Staff
Lead researchers
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Research outputs
Helen Farr, Mafalda Almeida, Francesca Gandini, Teresa Rito, M. George Foody, Andreia Brandão, Marisa Oliveira, Anna Olivieri, Alessandro Fichera, Gonzalo Oteo García, Zafarina Zainuddin, Eng Ken Khong, William Pomat, Jarosław Bryk, Luísa Pereira, Helen Farr, Maria Pala, Stephen J. Oppenheimer, Martin B. Richards & Pedro Soares,
2025, Scientific Reports, 15(1)
Type: article
Helen Farr,
2025, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 20(3), 579-600
Type: article
Helen Farr,
2025
Type: bookChapter
Eveline Kuijjer, Ivan Haigh, Robert Marsh & Helen Farr,
2022, PaleoAnthropology, 2022(1), 134-148
Type: article
Ingrid Ward, Alex Bastos, Diego Carabias, Hayley Cawthra, Helen Farr, Andrew Green & Fraser Sturt,
2022
Type: conference