Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208348

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208348

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The contribution of South Asia to the peopling of Australasia. This project focuses on the human fossil record from three regions critical to understanding the origins of our species, Homo sapiens. Australia is crucial in view of its diverse array of "gracile" and "robust" human remains of Late Pleistocene/early Holocene age. Equally important are South and Southeast Asia as they lined the tropical route between Africa, our species' Late Pleistocene homeland according to the Out of Africa theory, and Australia. Osteological and archaeological evidence of the selection pressures that operated on earlier hunter-gatherers will be employed to explain the observed patterns of morphological evolution throughout the study region.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-05-2002

End Date: 19-05-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $747,112.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Anthropology | Biological (Physical) Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Biological (Physical) Anthropology | Biological sciences | Palaeoecology | Understanding Australia'S Past | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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