Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101412

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP180101412

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

High resolution timeframe for hominin evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. This project aims to establish a high-resolution timeframe for hominin evolution in the famed Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya. The Basin hosts a vast array of hominin fossils that cover more than four million years of human evolution, and interbedded volcanic deposits within the Basin sediments has provided much of our current constraints on the timing of hominin evolution. However critical knowledge gaps remain. Using new instrumentation and dating methods, this project will provide an ultra-precise chronological framework for the basin. This is critical for transforming our understanding of hominin evolution and migration, under changing climatic and environmental conditions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2018

End Date: 30-06-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $414,204.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Geochronology | Volcanology | Isotope Geochemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences |

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Geochronology | Geology | Isotope Geochemistry | Volcanology

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