Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451472

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0451472

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A reappraisal of Western European Mousterian tools from Australian perspectives. Intense debates in human evolution surround Neanderthals in France, where archaeological deposits provide abundant evidence of their lives. Were Neanderthals complex cultural beings comparable to our ancestors or did they possess less complex cultures? This question has often been addressed through analysis of Neanderthal, or ?Mousterian?, stone tools. Previous studies follow a tradition of dividing tools into types such as ?scrapers? or ?points?. This study employs non-type-based Australian perspectives, incorporating new analytical techniques, to re-describe Mousterian tools, review what they tell us of Neanderthal capabilities, and evaluate conventional type-based systems of analysis. Significant new information about hominid evolution will result.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $320,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Archaeology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Archaeology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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