Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103650

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140103650

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tracking the development of agricultural lifestyles in island Southeast Asia through modern and prehistoric rodent communities. The emergence of agriculture, a key transformational event in human history, seems to have occurred significantly later in island SE Asia than surrounding regions. However, the early stages of agriculture may be archaeologically ‘invisible’ in the tropics due to simple material culture and housing. This project proposes to use the recent evolutionary history of agricultural rodent pests, all of which emerged in situ from among a native rodent fauna, as a proxy for the origins and spread of agriculture, and its subsequent intensification. This project will use phylogeography and population genetics to infer the history of contemporary rodent populations, combined with archaeozoological and ancient DNA analyses of prehistoric samples to test our inferences.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-2014

End Date: 12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $465,960.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified | Archaeology | Biogeography and Phylogeography

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Asia's Past | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

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