Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449758

Funding Activity

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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0449758

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Human Impact and Environmental Change in the Lower Yangtze Delta, China. Based upon a combination of sediment-based proxies of palaeoenvironmental conditions this project attempts to link existing models of geomorphological and climatic variability for the Yangtze Delta to cultural changes evident in archaeological and historical records. The Yangtze valley was the home of agriculture in Asia and hence for the beginnings of village life and Chinese culture. The delta region has prograded over 100 km since the early Holocene and there is a well- preserved succession of Neolithic and modern cultures across its surface. The project investigates the relative impact of Holocene river migration, sealevel and climate change on societies, and also the relative impact of societies on vegetation, eutrophication and erosion while the region was converted to an anthropogenic landscape. The results will enable models of human-environmental interactions to be compared with those developed for Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $106,600.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Earth Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Palaeoecology | Other History And Archaeology | Ecology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Global climate change adaptation measures

Other Keywords

Earth Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Ecology | Global climate change adaptation measures | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Other History And Archaeology | Palaeoecology | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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