Big interdisciplinary project to reveal patterns of migration
An archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg will lead and coordinate an international research project that has been awarded EUR 10 million in funding from the European Research Council. The team is made up of top researchers in a number of disciplines, who together aim to reveal the changes that lay behind human migrations 8,000 years ago.Which came first: Climate changes or social and economic changes? How did cultural and genetic changes influence each other? And what caused people to migrate? “These are some of the big questions that the project will answer,” says Kristian