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Funded Activity Summary
Early African woodworking and tool use at the transition to modern humans. Our archaeological excavations and preliminary dating of Amanzi Springs (South Africa) to between 515,000 and 163,000 years ago shows that the site covers a critical time period that led to the origins of our species, Homo sapiens. Amanzi documents, in never before seen resolution, the technological leaps that our ancestors made during this transition. At ~400,000 years ago this includes the oldest evidence for woodworking and tool use and >163,000 years ago the oldest heat treatment of rock to make stone tools. The organic preservation at the site means that we can reconstruct changing environment, linked to sea level changes and spring activity, for this period in the evolution of our ancestors at a level of detail not previously possibleFunded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2021
End Date: 12-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $408,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Climate Change Models | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability
