Out of Africa: human prehistory in southwestern China

该项目旨在确定东亚在中更新世和晚更新世期间人类定居的时间和进程。通过使用发光测年、沉积DNA和岩屑分析等最新的创新科学方法对中国西南部的一系列关键考古遗址进行研究，我们希望为了解过去30万年来东亚的人类史前提供新的见解。这将对解决有关现代人迁出非洲、跨越南亚和进入澳大利亚的时间、速度和路线的重大辩论作出重大贡献。

This project aims to establish the timing and processes of human settlement in East Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Through studying a series of key archaeological sites in southwest China using the most recent innovative scientific approaches in luminescence dating, sedimentary DNA and lithic analysis, we expect to provide new insights into the human prehistory of East Asia over the last 300,000 years. This should provide significant contribution to addressing major debates about the timing, rate and route of dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, across south Asia and into Australia.