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Funded Activity Summary
The evolution of human innovation in an arid biodiversity hotspot. This project will examine the archaeology and environmental history of South Africa’s Succulent Karoo, the world’s only arid biodiversity hotspot. Arid regions of Africa have historically been marginalised in accounts of human evolution yet recent evidence suggests that they were loci of innovation over the last 120 000 years. To explore the importance of such areas to the evolution of our adaptive capabilities, this project will produce comprehensive new datasets relating to the climatic, environmental, and social contexts of innovation among early humans occupying the site of Varsche Rivier 003. The results will test prevailing models of human behavioural evolution, shedding new light on how we came to be human.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2023
End Date: 12-2026
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $550,107.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Evolutionary impacts of climate change | Archaeological science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia Africa and the Americas |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
