NEEMO is a 3-year research project led by Professor Dušan Mihailović funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, as a part of the Ideas program. Experts from the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Mining and Geology of the University of Belgrade, as well as internationally renowned specialists from the country and abroad participate in the project.
The project is founded on the success of recent Paleolithic research in the Central Balkans, including the discovery of the first Neanderthal remains in the region and the oldest human fossil in Eastern Europe. Our findings have enabled the examination of interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans over the entire period in which the two populations could have coexisted (300-40 ka BP).
Using a unique opportunity to examine the problem of interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans and their ancestors throughout their presence in Europe, using the most modern methods, NEEMO seeks to answer one of the key questions in the early prehistory of Europe: how much could contact with Neanderthals have shaped the behavior of modern humans, and how much did the appearance of modern humans influence the extinction of the Neanderthals?
Project duration: 01.01.2022 – 31.12.2024
Project participants:
– dr Dušan Mihailović, PhD, Professor
– dr Vesna Dimitrijević, PhD, Professor
– dr Katarina Bogićević, PhD, Professor
– dr Draženko Nenadić, PhD, Professor
– dr Ana Majkić, PhD, Research Associate
– dr Stefan Milošević, PhD, Research Associate
– Predrag Radović, MA, Assistant
– dr Senka Plavšić, PhD, Research Assistant
– dr Sofija Dragosavac, PhD, Research Assistant
Project website: www.neemoproject.com
Contact e-mail: neemoserbia@gmail.com
The project is funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia within the Ideas programme.