Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102659

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140102659

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Leading-edge digital reconstruction and biomechanical modelling meet the Neanderthal skull: So why the long face? Perhaps no other extinct species has excited scientific or popular imagination as has our closest cousin, the Neanderthal. Who were these people? Once presented as the archetypal brute, it is now increasingly clear that these powerful, large brained humans were capable of sophisticated behaviours and that most of us carry Neanderthal DNA. Yet many questions remain. One of the most persistent is why the distinctive drawn out, prognathous face? The project will address this question, applying and developing recent advances the applicants have made in digital reconstruction and modelling, maintaining Australian research at the leading edge in the fast growing fields of virtual reconstruction and comparative biomechanics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 30-06-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $339,204.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant | Biological (Physical) Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant | Biological (Physical) Anthropology | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

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