The Project "The Evolution of the Acheulian and Homo erectus, 1.75-0.2 Ma, field investigations at Gona (Ethiopia), Ain Boucherit-Ain Hanech and Tighennif (Algeria)" investigates the evolution of the Acheulian technology in East Africa and North Africa between 1.7 and 0.2 million years ago.

The Pleistocene and Holocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca. Hominid Paleobiology and Settlement Patterns in Europe, Brain and Cognition and Geological and Geochronological Framework.

This operation, Physical and Digital Collections for the Evolution of Knowledge (COLEVOLUTION), is expected to continue creating, expanding and making available to the community the Center's own reference collections. This action includes the acquisition of 3D digital microscopy equipment and computerized microtomography equipment that will allow, through virtual analysis techniques, the incorporation of new specimens and information associated with the collections.

The main objective of this project is for the public not only to discover the scientific results of the research conducted during the DEATHREVOL project, but to actually make them participants in the research process itself.

Death and mortality are experiences shared by all humans and play an important role in almost all cultures around the world. A central part of this shared experience is the presence of funerary rites and practices, but little is known about when they emerged. The EU-funded DEATHREVOL project aims to reach a conclusion on the time of the first emergence of this 'culture of death'. As such, it will conduct classical and innovative taphonomic analyses in addition to researching fossil records concerning samples from the Middle Pleistocene and European Paleolithic periods to find traces of funerary rites.

Recent advances in the biological sciences have revealed how genes control the developmental processes that make our teeth. The Tied2Teeth project builds on the discovery that some of these genes also influence the developmental processes that underlie other parts of our bodies, such as hair texture, mammary glands, and body size. We will be investigating the details of how non-dental traits are interconnected with dental variation, how this varies across humans, and how this has evolved through time.

The PEOPLE project addresses human dispersal and adaptation to changing environments during the Pleistocene in South Africa. Considering that freshwater availability is one key factor in these processes, the project will search for archaeological deposits at rivers, springs, and dry lakes to determine how and when modern humans settled in the interior of the subcontinent.

"Evociencia" is a project of the Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+I) of CENIEH that aims to bring the research and work carried out in its laboratories of CENIEH to all types of public, and to involve society in the knowledge generated at the Center, developing a culture of human evolution.

With this project, we will investigate evolutionary processes within the Achelense and transitions to Middle Paleolithic (MP) cultures, which involved major behavioral changes in Africa and parts of Eurasia.