Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE160100703
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The Drumbeat of Human Evolution: Climate Proxies from Rockshelter Sediments. This project aims to trial new techniques for extracting environmental information from the sediments contained within archaeological rock shelters. Homo sapiens evolved during a period of dramatic climate variation, which almost certainly influenced human development and global dispersal. High-resolution climate records are rarely available for Pleistocene archaeological sites and so it is challenging to quantify the degree of behavioural response to environmental change. This project aims to apply novel geophysical and geochemical techniques to provide new climate records for Indonesia and South Africa, facilitate correlation with other climate archives and thus create a means of directly evaluating the degree of environmental influence on human behavioural evolution.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2016
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $346,536.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology |
